Beware Bo! More Royce! My question to MD is do you see Pirsig fitting neatly into this movement as described below? I'm not familiar with the details of all the labeled doctrines, but reading them with the MoQ in mind I find myself checking them off one by one going, yep, yep, yep.....
I mean, I'm pretty sure the MoQ is a "constructionalist epistemology stressing the changing character of our conceptual schemes". It sure looks like one to me. >From Bruce Kuklick's Josiah Royce, An Intellectual Biography "... we have been told that to trace the story of American thought is to trace a peculiar version of experimental Anglo-American empiricism from Peirce, to James to Dewey; If we wish to examine a secondary theme, we may examine the Hegelian Royce who stands outside this tradition, influence by German thought, the leading expositor of a different philosophic style, absolute idealism. This picture is wrong not merely in detail but in principle. I have indicated that the Cambridge pragmatists--Royce among them--were part of a major philosophical movement. Their pragmatism is a form of neo-Kantianism which draws from a set of connected doctrines: A constructionalist epistemology stressing the changing character of our conceptual schemes; a commitment to a variety of voluntarism; A Kantian concern with the nature of possible experience; an adherence to the idealist principle that existence does not transcend consciousness; a distrust of traditional British empiricism; a recognition of the importance of logic for philosophy; a refusal to distinguish between questions of knowledge and of value; an emphasis on the relation of philosophy to practical questions; a desire to reconcile science and religion." 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/
