Hi Ron, > Ron: > Truth is a species of the good, and being a species of the good > it is a first priciple of explaination. Especially since the Good > accounts for all experience. I would say thats an explaination thats out side > of > culture and history.
Steve: All explanations are created to serve certain human purposes. The idea that truth is a species of good does not stand outside of history and culture. It is the sort of thing that only someone who has read certain books would say. You wouldn't have said this if you hadn't read Pirsig and if Pirsig hadn't read James and if James hadn't read Pierce, and on and on. Recall that as Pirsig pointed out, Descartes' famous attempt to assert the first ahistorical truth was a success in a way but not in the way Descartes had hoped: "Descartes' "I think therefore I am" was a historically shattering declaration of independence of the intellectual level of evolution from the social level of evolution, but would he have said it if he had been a seventeenth century Chinese philosopher? If he had been, would anyone in seventeenth century China have listened to him and called him a brilliant thinker and recorded his name in history? If Descartes had said, "The seventeenth century French culture exists, therefore I think, therefore I am," he would have been correct." Best, Steve 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
