Krimel asked: Where in either book does Pirsig dismiss Kant's argument? Please anyone can answer the question.
dmb says:Kant is discussed in ZAMM, starting in chapter 11. It's worth pointing out that he says that this discussion is important for understanding what Phaedrus thought and that Kant has to be rejected to the extent that he was working within SOM. Or, if you prefer, his discussion is important for understanding Pirsig's attack on the metaphysics of substance and helps to explain why there are no Kantian things-in-themselves in the MOQ. And basically, these days, Kant's categories of the mind have been replaced by language. Things like time and space are not considered to be inherent categories of the human mind so much as the thought categories handed down by the culture. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_explore_012009 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
