Thanks dave, a realization I've been hoping to get from you for a long time.
One big difference of course, is that Royce and James were much more on the same level - both being classically trained philosophers and discussion centered around the same issues. Thus they fed each other ideas. The fruitfulness of their relationship had a huge impact on American Philosophy. > I was thinking about this the other day when it occurred me that there is > an interesting parallel between James's relationship with Royceand Pirsig's > relationship to John Sutherland. In both cases, they were friendships that > persisted despite their opposed temperaments. And in the final analysis > James and Pirsig both come to the conclusion that the best thing to do is > combine the two types of approaches into a more well-rounded and integrated > approach. Neither one of them recommend one to the exclusion of the other. > And where do they land? Radical empiricism is tough-minded because it is > empirical but it is also tender-minded because it puts Quality or pure > experience at the front edge of that empirical reality so that feeling is at > the very center of thought. > 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
