Dmb, Mister, I'm not interested in hearing you 'locate Pirsig in the discourse by way of James.' As I mentioned, i was hoping you'd demonstrate how RMP has brought James' philosophies together and moved them forward, but that's beyond your present situation.
Four-letter word bad? Should I be scared of your evaluation? I'm not. You're not my professor. Marsha On Mar 10, 2010, at 12:30 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > Marsha said: > > I don't give a bunny's butt about William James. But then dmb has all that > intellectual competency, I shouldn't disagree with him. For the record, RMP, > not WJ or dmb, is my favorite philosopher. > > > > dmb says: > > You've outdone yourself. Maybe you don't give a bunny's butt about James but > your favorite philosopher does. Pirsig explicitly identifies himself as an > America pragmatist in general and a as Jamesean radical empiricist in > particular. James and Pirsig are as alike as any two philosopher can be. > Since there is so little academic literature on Pirsig and so much on James, > the only practical way to locate Pirsig in the discourse is by way of James. > The fact that you see so little merit in that says a lot more about you than > me or James. I think it makes you look bad. Real bad. Four-letter word bad. > > And how much sense does it make to mock the value of intellectual competence > in a philosophical discussion forum? > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/ > 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/md/archives.html ___ 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/md/archives.html
