Hi all,
What is metaphysics? Does everyone have a metaphysics? Or can people
get by without being metaphysicians?
Rorty:
"I shall define an "ironist" as someone who fulfills three
conditions: (1) She has radical and continuing doubts about the final
vocabulary she currently uses, because she has been impressed by
other vocabularies, vocabularies taken as final by people or books
she has encountered; (2) she realizes that argument phrased in her
present vocabulary can neither underwrite nor dissolve these doubts;
(3) insofar as she philosophizes about her situation, she does not
think that her vocabulary is closer to reality than others, that it
is in touch with a power not herself. Ironists who are inclined to
philosophize see the choice between vocabularies as made neither
within a neutral and universal metavocabulary nor by an attempt to
fight one's way past appearances to the real, but simply by playing
the new off against the old."
Is Pirsig an ironist?
Thanks,
Steve
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