Hi Matt, John, DMB, all
you said:
I would just add that Steve's puzzlement on why metaphysics
is impossible to avoid relies on a subtle disparity between
what Steve would like to call metaphysics (following more in
line with Rorty's usage) and what John would like to call
metaphysics (following more in line with Pirsig's usage).
Steve:
I think there is a difference in the way we are using to the term,
and I could easily be wrong about how metaphysics has traditionally
been thought of since I'm not expert on philosophy, but I tend to
think that something different is going on with Pirsig other than
metaphysics as usual. We have Pirsig actually saying that he has
created a new metaphysics! Has anyone else ever made that claim?
Pirsig has offered us polar coordinates (MOQ) with the suggestion
that we may find it better than rectangular coordinates (SOM), while
the idea of metaphysics had always, as far as I know, precluded the
idea that there even can be more than one metaphysics. As far as I
know, metaphysics is not taken to be the creation of ways of talking
about reality/experience but the search for THE way of talking about
it, i.e. trying to find the language in which the universe itself
demands to be spoken about and to find the correct sentences that the
universe demands be said about it.
Is not Pirsig then using the word "metaphysics" in an ironistic way
in contrast with the search for such Truth? I'd like to read him as
an ironist anyway.
Best,
Steve
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