John said:
Royce and James were both skeptical of Hegel, and even Pirsig was enthusiastic
in the end, of the one Absolute Idealist that he encountered in the Copleston
Annotations - FH Bradly.
dmb says:
No, Pirsig was NOT surprised and pleased by Bradley's Absolute Idealism. It's
precisely because Bradley - for a moment - was talking like a philosophical
mystic and an advocate of the perennial philosophy and not like an Absolutist.
And you're glossing over the fact that James saw both Royce as Bradley as
philosophers with a fundamentally different temperament than his own. Schiller,
James's English bodyguard, attacked Bradley so mercilessly that James had to
tell him to cool down. Repeatedly. Schiller wrote hilarious and scathing
parodies of his scholarly papers and mockingly attributed them to "F.H. Badly",
for example. In any case, it's certainly NOT evil or slanderous to say James
was "furiously against" his life long friend and sparring partner Royce. It's
just a relatively strong way to characterize the fundamental differences
between rationalists and empiricist, between romantic and classic styles of
thought. Pirsig and James want to fuse these two modes and so they ar
e simply picking one side over the other. With the MOQ you get empiricism and
mysticism at the same time but this is accomplished by being radically
empirical. The mysticism is IN the empiricism, not despite it or even along
side it.
But I think you are not fusing them. You're just confusing them. Big difference.
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