From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 18:29:06 GMT
Platt,
Platt said:
could you tell us again what's at the
top of the ladders you keep climbing and discarding, what's on the
islands you jump on and off of, why you keep changing and how you
determine when one ladder or island is "better" than another?
Matt:
The answer for Rorty is the same as it is for Pirsig: we don't really know
except for something vague like, "betterness." This is a point of easy
commensurability between Rorty and Pirsig as far as I can see.
Platt said:
do you view
the pragmatist line as providing a temporary foothold on a static pattern
ladder that will eventually be discarded?
Matt:
Do you mean is pragmatist philosophy a stepping stone to something else?
Well sure. Just as Platonic inquiry had its time and place, so will
pragmatist philosophy. I have no idea what nonPlatonic, nonpragmatist
philosophy would look like, but I'm sure someday a genius will come along,
hold the past in thought (as Hegel said), and decide that there is a better
way to do things. If I had an alternative to spell out less vaguely, then
I might be that genius. But I'm no genius. I think we still need to
follow through on the pragmatist arc.
Matt
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