[Platt]
No. The founders and their forebears got it from REVELATION.
[Arlo]
Not according to Pirsig. I'll stick with him.
"And yet, although Jefferson called this doctrine of social equality
"self-evident," it is not at all self-evident. Scientific evidence
and the social evidence of history indicate the opposite is
self-evident. There is no "self-evidence" in European history that
all men are created equal. There's no nation in Europe that doesn't
trace its history to a time when it was "self-evident" that all men
are created unequal. Jean Jacques Rousseau, who is sometimes given
credit for this doctrine, certainly didn't get it from the history of
Europe or Asia or Africa. He got it from the impact of the New World
upon Europe and from contemplation of one particular kind of
individual who lived in the New World, the person he called the
"Noble Savage." "(Pirsig)
He got it from CONTEMPLATION. Maybe you should try to understand that
Pirsig guy someday.
[Platt]
Gee, I wonder why I would tend to believe those who founded a nation
over a college instructor or some modern SOM intellectual?.
[Arlo]
You mean Pirsig? Because that's who I quoted.
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