And ... quoting Hildebrand's own words on Dewey ... QUOTE Dewey's entreaties—that philosophy start from lived experience (practically), motivated by moral ends (meliorism)—are prescriptive but necessarily vague. They pose a challenge to professionalized philosophers, who tend to respond by demanding specifics ... UNQUOTE
The problem in a nutshell. People who believe it is "professional" to demand definitive (linguistic or logic) specifics. Ian On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]> wrote: > Had time to read this piece more reflectively over the weekend DMB. > Your "thinking out loud" is excellent stuff. > > I think this is key, ... after you have described the "non-explicit" > thinking process in the classic tooth and claw predator survival case > of evolution ... the simple intentional (as if) view of causation is > shorthand for a whole lot of activities on many levels and timescales > ... you say ... > > QUOTE > the word "expedient" almost has to be vague > UNQUOTE > > This is exactly what Pirsig is saying when he says that value / > quality "must remain undefined" ? Pragmatically, these values cannot > be pre-judged, prior to the hindsight of the evolutionary process. Our > framework / world-view must not be (MoQ is not) prejudicial to that > process. > > Regards > Ian > 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/
