From: Valence (valence10@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 05 2005 - 04:37:51 BST
Hi Folks
The results of the Call for Votes for April 2005 are shown below.
This month's topic is:
1) "The MOQ is a continuation of the mainstream of 20th century American
philosophy. It is a form of pragmatism, of instrumentalism, which says the
test of the true is the good. It adds (THE MOQ ADDS!!!) that this good is
not a social code or some intellectualized Hegalian absolute. It is direct
everyday experience. Through this identification of pure value with pure
experience, the MOQ paves the way for an enlarged way of looking at
experience which can resolve all sorts of anomalies that traditional
empiricism has not been able to cope with."
When Pirsig denies that the "good" in his version of pragmatism is a social
code or "some intellectualized Hegalian absolute" what is he denying
exactly. What is a "Hegalian absolute" and why is it better to replace such
things with "pure experience"? Or more generally, what is Pirsig doing to
Pragmatism here?
The voting was as follows:
1 - Marty, Sam, DMB, Rick
2 -
3 - Mark
If you sent in a vote and don't see it reflected above, let me know and I'll
try and figure out what happened. Otherwise, discuss away....
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