Magnus > I think I missed something here. I agree with his idea about depend and > discrete, but the "duh" came a little unexpected. The "duh" was an indication of my denseness such that one paragraph from his book dissolved my misunderstanding. >
> > That was also a bit cryptic. Would you mind elaborating on the empirical > method problem? I'm less than half way through so anything I say would probably be misleading. But his basic claim is science needs to move from a "philosophy of knowledge" which seeks "objective truths" to a "philosophy of wisdom" which seek "valuable truths." To do this science needs to move from "standard empiricism" to "aims based empiricism" a term he creates. Here is a link to his website: http://www.nick-maxwell.demon.co.uk/ Interesting I emailed him asking about his view on Lila and his response was similar to those I got from both Rorty and Alexander when I ask them the same question. >[quoted from maxwell's response] > Thank you for your email. I have read Lila, but found it > less interesting than his first book. > I don't believe quality is metaphysically fundamental in > the way Pirsig proposes in Lila. >[Magnus] >I actually don't think the intellectual level is such as mystery. The > mystery comes along when you start involving "me"s and "I"s, but those include > much more than just static intellectual patterns. But that is just the point if intellectual patterns are values; "me's" and "I's" should be an integral part of them. If truth is "a species of good", "valuable truths" the intellectual level must be expanded from Bo's SOL ridgidty of objective knowledge for knowledge sake, to quality knowledge of what is good for "us" to know when we act. Dave > 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/
