John said:
here's another flavor of Absolute Idealism,.. Don't you think this also
harmonizes with the MoQ? He sounds like he's describing Quality, in it's most
Phaedrusian originality, to a 'T": For Bosanquet, logic is central to
philosophy — but it is ‘logic’ in a broad sense. He writes: “By Logic we
understand, with Plato and Hegel, the supreme law or nature of experience, the
impulse towards unity and coherence […] by which every fragment yearns towards
the whole to which it belongs…” the “inherent nature of reason” is “the
absolute demand for totality and consistency”. Moreover, logic — “the spirit of
totality” — is “the clue to reality, value and freedom”.
dmb says:
Well, no. If anything, Bosanquet's view harmonizes with the original problem,
namely the supremacy of logic and reason above everything else. Instead of
saying logic was the clue to reality and values, the MOQ would say that logic
is derived from value, which is reality. As Pirsig explains in those climactic
scenes, quality became subordinate to reason somewhere back in Ancient Greece
and then he pins it on Plato and his battle with the Sophists. And then there
is the fact that Pirsig rejects the comparison with Hegel precisely because his
view's absolute demand for totality and consistency.
No sir. I think you've got a tin ear when it comes to this stuff. As I see it,
you just heard polka but you thought you heard jazz.
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