Greetings Ham,
On Apr 15, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Ham Priday wrote: >> >> James was very influenced by reading Eastern texts, and rather than >> reading James's interpretation of a poor translation, I think I'll stick to >> reading Buddhist's texts directly. Today there are wonderful, in-depth, >> scholarly translations of very old Pali texts, and it is not a dead >> philosophy >> so there are knowledgeable scholars and practitioners to answer questions. >> RMP has spoken as much about Buddhism as about the American >> Pragmatists. He has identified himself as a Buddhist. > > I'll accept that profile, despite the fact that the MOQ has been promoted by > several in this forum as an example of "radical empiricism", with William > James and other pragmatists cited as the founders of this philosophical > approach. (I'm surprised that you haven't been involved in those > discussions.) You shouldn't be surprised; I'm a "stupid" relativist who thinks Protagoras had it right all along, and I prefer the Buddha's Emptiness (Quality) and conventional/relative truth (static quality) to anything I've heard about William James. Buddhism is also pragmatic and based on empiricism. I haven't found the WJ discussions to ever get off the ground. j Even Horse and Arlo, who seems to think they need to defend dmb, have not participated in any WJ discussion. But let me ask you: Why haven't you participated in any discussion concerning the WJ, pragmatism and/or radical empiricism? Thank you for the discussion. On some level I often find your comments agreeable. And you actually do a great job of defending the MoQ. Your unique language gets me confused, but also the fact that I cannot find an autonomous self or independent objects and therefore reject them. I find 'First' or 'Primary' unnecessary adjectives, but we will continue this another day I'm sure. Thanks Ham, Marsha ___ 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
