Greetings Jon, I'm afraid I'll have to disagree with you on a few points. Hope you don't mind.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Jon Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > I think Prisig is a much better writer than philosopher. Sorry, but this can't be true. If a guy writes a philosophically oriented book and it's not good as philosophy, then it's not that good as a book. But I'm not sure what you think a good philosopher is, either. > And Zamm was much > better written than Lila, or the parts I've read. I think that Lila was perfect, but only as a response to a felt-need raised in the reading and apprehension of ZAMM. Usually when people don't like the second book, it indicates to me that they never really absorbed the first. A common weakness in our attention deficient age, so don't feel insulted. But the "parts I've read" comment does sorta expose you as a dilettante. sorry. > I do think he raises some > very interesting and timely and relevant points about philosophy, or times, > the history of ideas. > > But I find most of his solutions in the moq simple, naive and sometimes > just > plain flaky. This is all too nebulous to comment upon. Tell me specifically what you find naive or flakey and perhaps I can find something intelligent to contribute to your understanding. For me, this from my last page of Lila says it all and if you think this is naive and/or flakey... well you and me ain't gonna get along. "Now Phardrus remembered when he had gone to the reservation after Dusenberry's death and told them he was a friend of Dusenberry's they had answered, "Oh, yes, Dusenberry. He was a *good* man. They always put their emphasis on the *good*, just as John had with the dog. When the Indians used good, they meant it as the center of existence and that Dusenberry, in his nature, was an embodiment or incarnation of this center of life. Maybe when Phaedrus got this metaphysics all put together people would see that the value-centered reality it described wasn't just a wild thesis off into some new direction but was a connecting link to the center of themselves." 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
