From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Oct 19 2003 - 19:24:56 BST
David M and all:
David MOREY said:
I see at least a 75% common ground between
Pirsig and Rorty. One of the main aspects of this
is that understanding has to begin with practical
engagement/value. Pirsig is quite clear about this in terms
of where he located value in his ontology, and so is Rorty in
calling himself a pragmatist. For Rorty this is taken up from
Heidegger's phenomenological analysis of human experience....
dmb says:
Are you equating "practical engagement" with "value"? Pirsig is quite clear
about this? Sorry, Dave, I just don't see what you're saying. You'd have to
be much, much more specific. But you only responded to a little joke. Rather
than take me down the road from Heidegger to Rorty, I wish you'd take a look
at the detailed case. I'd tried to show how Pirsig and Rorty clash with some
level of specificity. Or more directly, I could just ask you a question: How
do you reconcile Pirsig's mystical metaphysics with Rorty's
post-metaphysical stance. It seems to me that they conflict on most of the
central issues, but the centrality of mysiticism poses the biggest problem
for pragmatists like Rorty.
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