Hugo Fjelsted Alroe (alroe@vip.cybercity.dk)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:54:31 +0100
Bo, I think you may have misunderstood me, - if I understand what you are
saying below.
I did not argue that the Mind-Body-dualism was a priori true. I said that I
do not believe it can be rejected via open inquiry, that it is immune to
inquiry so to speak. Just for the record, I do not myself adhere to any
kind of transcendentalism; and it is through many arguments with people who
do, whether Cartesians or religious people, that I have arrived at the
point of view that transcendentalism is immune to inquiry. Whether one
adheres or not to such a view is not to be decided within reason, it is a
decision _about_ reason, it has to do with what kind of role we delegate
to reason or rationality in our lives.
Glad to see you back and kicking Bo!
Hugo
>Hugo vents his favourite idea of the Mind/Matter (or Mind/Body)
>dualism as a reality (brute fact) independent of any metaphysical
>consideration (a priori so to say). That it has its roots far back in
>antiquity is no secret; Pirsig's claim is that it is the result of the
>Greek's "increasing ability of abstraction". No, that the Mind/Body
>dualism is SOM's primary offshoot I will maintain. After all it has
>been stressed over and over that prehistoric man did not see this
>"fact". The old Greek myth gods - like our Nordic ones - weren't
>spirits. Invisible (usually) or in the shape of anything, and
>imperishable, but not members of a spiritual realm. At Descartes'
>time however the MBd had been firmly settled. Well, Hugo goes on to
>repair this, and I take the liberty to include what he says in the
>SOM-as-Intellect-of-MOQ idea. The Mind/Body dichotomy was/is a
>valuable stage that has brought humankind great strides forward -
>MOQ-wise: a whole new moral level, but is now in the process of being
>circumscribed.
>
>Bo
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