From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Dec 05 2004 - 02:58:39 GMT
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From: Scott Roberts said:
.........................................................Thus, the step
toward thinking in terms of contradictory identity is that of going from
just treating the self as paradox to treating the self as a locus of
contradictory identity. Or, contradictory identity is not just a way to
think about the self, rather, contradictory identity is what makes the self
happen. ...One can apply the same logic to DQ and SQ, but if one does, one
gets something different from the treatment of these as given in the MOQ...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy says:
NISHIDA KITARO (1870-1945) Foremost Japanese philosopher of the 20th century
and founding father of the Kyoto School, Nishida is best known for his
path-breaking work of 1911, AN INQUIRY INTO THE GOOD. With this book he
began to articulate a system of thought based on the Zen Buddhist experience
in terms borrowed from French, German and Anglo-American philosophy,
psychology, and natural science. Drawing on William James and Henry Bergson,
Nishida developed a philosophy based on 'pure experience' as that which
underlies the subject-object relation. A thinker of great erudition and
learning, he developed and refined his system over several decades to
encompass the social and historical worlds as well as the world of religion.
Central to Nishida's thinking are the ideas of the 'topos of nothingness'
and of the world as the 'self-identity of absolute contradictories'."
"Pure experience that underlies the subject-object relation" How much more
Pirsigian does it have to be? It seems like you have to be clobbered over
the head before you'll notice that this stuff only supports and illuminates
the MOQ, and then you still don't see it. I really don't know what else to
do except put it in front of your eyes and hope for the best. Bonehead.
wearily yours,
dmb
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