dmb, For the record, I said "the tiny slice of academia that is your life as a student." I didn't state that I reject academia. You really are so a baloney maker.
Philosophy is a very broad range of topics, radical empiricism and American pragmatism are two set of ideas from many, many more. I have found the Buddhist perspective, which is based on empiricism and is extremely pragmatic, has helped my understanding of the MoQ. I've read the 'Philosophy of Loyalty' by Josiah Royce, have you? Hahahaha. --- Btw, are you in a PhD program? Marsha On Sep 25, 2010, at 5:07 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > > Marsha said to dmb: > And like I said, I have not adopted the perspective you've concocted from > your small portion of the flux-of-life. Yours is 'just' one point-of-view. > For me, the MoQ is epistemologically relative (sq) and ontologically > indeterminate (DQ), and that is what I mean when I call myself a relativist. > I do not need to be influenced by what you say is the socially acceptable > jargon within the tiny slice of academia that is your life as a student. > > dmb says: > > First of all, my perspective is not concocted from the flux of life. The MOQ > is presented in books, using words and ideas and concepts. Pragmatism is a > philosophy too. Radical empiricism is a set of ideas. To say you don't need > to be influenced by academia is to dismiss the people who know what they're > talking about. If that's not an anti-intellectual statement, then I don't > know what would count as anti-intellectual. And the suggestion that academic > study of a philosophy somehow makes one's view more narrow is completely > absurd. Especially considering that I'm getting a degree in interdisciplinary > Humanities, which is the broadest kind of education available at the graduate > level. No, if you want to have a narrow view what you do is ignore the people > who know what they're talking about and cling desperately to your own private > view, making sure you read only those things that seem to confirm what you > already think. And if you want to avoid any possibility of growth or lear ning, make sure to clam up when people voice criticisms or objections. Better yet, just say something like "I wish you well" even though you don't and then curl up in a fetal position until the questions go away. > > > > > > > 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 ___ 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
