You know Ron, I've always had a grudge against ole Aristotle. Dumb reasons, I'm sure. ZAMM first of all, and cringing in my own head at memories of Aristotlean laughter when I failed to fit some authority's category.
And then one of the biggest jerks in my experience, a friend of my mom's who was very full of himself, proclaimed Aristotle in pompous demeanor as his Philosopher of choice. His message wasn't about Aristotle, his message was about himself, but it didn't win any fandom from me. So I appreciate yer explication of him and forcing some re-thought; especially the part about absolute relativism and Good as a limit we can know in an intuitive, pattern-making, level-shifting interpretation type deal that Willy and Josh and the boys used to discuss such things with wonder and awe and without rancor or envy. The good ole days, as it were. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:52 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > Came to a rather interesting part in metaphysics by ole Aristotle > in regard to relativism, the kind that takes relativism to the infinite. > We'd call such a thing an absolute relativism the kind that often gets > quite a workout in discussions regarding Pragmatism .and it's pragmatism > and Pirsig what comes to the forefront of the problems with a philosphicaly > absolute relativistic stance, that Aristotle makes the statement that it > neglects the "good". I thought that was the best answer to the question > of an absolutley relativistic metaphysical viewpoint. > > He makes a pragmatic arguement to support this statement, he says > the good is a limit, something in which one is prepared to act apon, > which sounded alot like Willy James. > > > > 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/ > 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/
