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From: "Matt Kundert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Truth and the Linguistic Turn
Hi Marsha, Joe,
Joe said:
IMO Matt and Marsha arrive at the same page, life, from different
perspectives: variety is a difficulty of life, or variety is the spice of
life. How many varieties does life come in? Is the inorganic a ³present
variety² of life? Why isn¹t evolution discovered in a ³process of finding
truth in our experience of the world?²
Marsha said:
If I look to the West, truth looks one way, and if I look to the East the
truth looks another way. I never want to be the one who assumes truth to be:
This is what I think, this what I feel, so this is the way it is... I would
have never thought so, but I am beginning to think that the closer I look,
the further I get from any kind of "truth". The generality is closer to the
truth, the specific instance is just made up story, myth, or maybe a
beautiful song, or poem. But I don't know...
Matt:
In all honesty, I've never been very good at understanding Joe, but I like
the way he puts Marsha and I on the same page, "life." There is a sense
that I've been coming to appreciate more and more in my writing that "life"
is the widest, most important concept/thing. I can see why he pits us with
the point of views he does, but when I'm not doing philosophy (in the
particular way I do it), I quite like the variety of life myself. I'd like
to think that whatever philosophical viewpoint I have, it encompasses both
the difficulty and spicy versions.
As it is with the point of view you enunciated, Marsha, I think you've bled
together quite well parts of wisdom that I like, parts that can be found
from both the East and West. In the West, it is a philosophical tradition
that begins with Socrates, continues with the Pyhrronian tradition, into
Montainge, Emerson and Nietzsche and into the Existentialists. I think it
is fundamentally a humanist and ironist tradition, a string of intellectuals
who look askance at the common sense of their time, people who feel both the
need to speak and take back everything spoken, often producing a very
ambivalent tone in their writings.
Matt
Greetings Matt, Joe,
Ambivalence? What can you say definitively about a universe that is
uncaused, like a net of jewels in which each is only the reflection of all
the others in a fantastic interrelated harmony without end? Rooting out
ones own erroneous thought seems the best course of action. I think that my
point-of-view fits well with the MOQ, but sometimes it's hard tell. If it
doesn't, I wish I would be more challenged. Sometimes it is very clear,
other times confusion reigns. I started being so against hard logic, and
here I am now chasing Nagarjuna's tetralemma form of logic. Life is such a
circle game. Ha!
I find both you and Joe difficult to translate. But more and more I see
your (both) words as your art, and that is perfectly wonderful. My
curiosity and understanding will hopefully grow. I hope so. The MOQ seems
perfect to me, because there is so much room to grow. It is dynamic from
its own side. Spicy? Harmonic? Dance through and through...
Marsha
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