Andre, Yes, I recently read 'The Meeting of East and West by Northrop.'. It was interesting,but there a many scholarly books more recently published that are extremely interesting.
Marsha On Oct 10, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Andre Broersen wrote: > Marsha to Andre: > > Marsha previously: > > My primary mission is not to support 'contemporary pragmatism'. > > Marsha now: > I support being pragmatic. > > But that doesn't mean I am going to adopt dmb's notion of Contemporary > Pragmatism. > > Andre: > You are beginning to adopt Bodvar's method of extricating yourself from an > untenable position > whereby you lose a sense of what you are talking about, the implications of > what you are talking > about, and the direction that it takes you. You begin to invent things, twist > things, bend things > etc, to try to get yourself out of admitting you are lost. > Before long you'll have invented six different streams of pragmatism as > decoys. > > Dmb is talking about pragmatism plain and simple, William James's pragmatism > the one the MOQ subscribes to > and indeed has improved upon. > > The reason why I did not copy the 2.7 section for all to see is because I > have to do it by hand, and it is a > little lengthy and, I know that in response I get a one-line dismissal. > > Let's just say that Bodvar has his MOQ and that we now have Marsha's > pragmatism. > > Marsha: > I have repeatedly stated I am study the MoQ as a bridge between East and West. > > Andre: > Yes you have. And very recently you said you try to do this from a Buddhist > perspective and a little > while ago you stated that you are not a Buddhist nor an expert in it. > > Have you actually read Northrop's 'The Meeting of East and West'? It is the > book young Phaedrus read on > the ship taking him back to America after his stint in Korea. It is referred > to in ZMM. > Mr. Pirsig calls himself a student of Northrop. It may be a good idea to > start there to give yourself > an overall context within which to place the(scholarly side)of the MOQ. > > > > 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
