Quoting Krimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [Krimel] > > That was Pirsig's postmodern position not mine. Surely, you are not > > disputing Pirsig. > > [Platt] > Cite a reference, please. > > [Krimel] > Ok I tried not to use any big words but these are quotes: > > "English departments have been packed by deconstructionists who insist that > Shakespeare is no better than rap music." Platt's Boy Barone. > > Ok, this is a hard one from Wiki but you can skip it if it hurts your head: > > "Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, > and the social sciences, denoting a process by which the texts and languages > of Western philosophy (in particular) appear to shift and complicate in > meaning when read in light of the assumptions and absences they reveal > within themselves." -Wiki > > More Wiki but littler words this time: > > "Postmodernism is a developing set of perspectives that call into question > the Western modernist assumption that Truth or an objective reality can be > possibly known... Deconstruction is a term which is used to denote the > application of postmodern ideas of criticism, or theory, to a "text" or > "artifact", based on architectural deconstructivism." Wiki > > Now moosh this together and you get something like this: > > "But if Quality or excellence is seen as the ultimate reality then it > becomes possible for more than one set of truths to exist. Then one doesn't > seek the absolute Truth.' One seeks instead the highest quality intellectual > explanation of things with the knowledge that if the past is any guide to > the future this explanation must be taken provisionally; as useful until > something better comes along. One can then examine intellectual realities > the same way one examines paintings in an art gallery, not with an effort to > find out which one is the 'real' painting, but simply to enjoy and keep > those that are of value. There are many sets of intellectual reality in > existence and we can perceive some to have more quality than others, but > that we do so is, in part, the result of our history and current patterns of > values." RMP - Lila
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