Mati said to Horse:
To those who believe they are Pirsig loyalists, Bo certainly seems like a
heretic. Then again there are many in the formal philosophy departments around
the world that think Pirsig is a heretic to the traditional philosophic steeped
in SOM. Intellectually dishonest?.... sorry I honestly don't see it that way.
dmb says:
As I have repeatedly pointed out to Bo, today's philosophy departments are
filled with anti-SOM heretics. Rejecting SOM is practically the definition of
postmodernism, which is dominates our universities. This is one of the reasons
for the revival of James and Dewey and pragmatism in general; because it
includes a specific attack on SOM. And how is that attack mounted?
Intellectually, of course. We even see Pirsig quoting James on this point at
the end of Lila's chapter 29.
Do I think Bo is being dishonest in dismissing this point? Well, it's probably
a case of self-deception and willful ignorance. If Bo says that SOM and the
intellectual level are identical despite the fact that there is more than a
hundred years of intellectual work that rejects SOM, then he can only maintain
his position by pretending that these thinkers don't count. This is not just an
unreasonable position. People get angry at the stubborn refusal to accept
evidence that is both overwhelming in its scope and unmistakable in its
specificity. I mean, Radical Empiricism IS a rejection of SOM and that was
developed a hundred years ago. Within pragmatism, some of today's academic
professionals self-identify as radical empiricists and even insist that it is
essential to pragmatism.
I mean, the idea that philosophy remains steeped in SOM simply isn't true.
Rejecting it is a real option that real people take. This can be dished up in
quotes from text books assigned to students and from the assigning professor's
own lips. Nobody with access to a search engine needs to take my word for it.
Check it out. Look it up. See for yourself.
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