Ham, Adrie and Joseph, I just have one main comment on this thread:
Pirsig rails against various Idealistic intellectual formulations for pages and pages of Copleston Annotation and then concludes with an astounding reversal in his analysis of Bradley and calls Bradley's philosophy "Perennial" by which I take it he meant "allied". Thus Pirsig's avowal of Bradley's Absolute Idealism opens the way for Ham's Absolute Essence as compatible with the MoQ, which points to a problem for fans of Willy James as James is consistently scathing of Bradley. So if the enemy of my ally is my ally... Hadn't I better go back to the drawing board and think my knee-jerk rejections through a bit more? Nah. Thinking is hard work. Why think when there's the SEP and wiki to do my thinking for me? It's almost as hard to think straight as it is to read Heidegger! Adrie, you mentioned some interest in pursuing this train of thought. A good overview of Royce's analysis of Bradley, and his four conceptions of being, can be found here <http://www.angelfire.com/md2/timewarp/royce.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
