From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 15:54:36 GMT
David, Sam,
Sam:
"We can have a conversation about different mythologies, I don't deny that
they all resemble each other, or have elements in common, but I just want
to point out that there doesn't HAVE to be an 'essence' of myth...."
Matt:
Right. I think David is begging the question in his favor by positing that
all mythologies have an essence. Sure, all mythologies have the same
source: the surroundings of the myth-creators i.e. Quality. But to say
that this is an essence is to take a step further that begs the question
over antiessentialists, like myself.
Following Pirsig's comments about Plato encapsulating the Good, David said,
"He provides an intellectual description of Dynamic Quality, but not quite
a definition. Unlike Plato, he insists some things can never be
encapsulated in this way and admits that such efforts to pin it down are
degenerate activities." I think the entire notion of Dynamic Quality not
being able to be encapsulated is the notion that it does not have an
essence. Plato tried to give it an essence and spawned off the Western
tradition of metaphysics. I think to continue to maintain that DQ has an
essence while maintaining that it can never be enunciated, will diffuse any
possible philosophical work claiming DQ is an essence could have done.
And, therefore, I don't see the purpose in maintaining both.
Matt
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