A good metaphysics, like a good rodeo, a good marriage, or a musical instrument when played to the pitch of perfection, becomes more than what it started out to be. It is effort transformed into effortlessness; a balance becomes grace, the way love goes deep into friendship.
--Gretel Ehrlich. tweaked a bit by John On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Matt Kundert <[email protected] > wrote: > > "I think at the heart of the difference between philosophers attracted > to the classical pragmatists but repelled by Rorty is the thought that > radical empiricism returns us to the scene of life, a counter to > abstract philosophical sterilities. I can empathize with the > formulation, to the idea of pragmatism "returning us to the scene of > life," a formula I've grown fond of. However, what I think we should > rather say in most cases, is that philosophy is abstract by nature--that's > what it is--and returning to the scene of life is something that people > need to figure out how to do, not necessarily philosophies, or other > abstract activities. For instance, why would we necessarily want > theoretical physics to do so? Philosophy is Dewey's indirect > experience--returning to life is knowing, as Wittgenstein put it, when > to put philosophy down." > > --from "Quine, Sellars, Empiricism, and the Linguistic Turn" > > http://pirsigaffliction.blogspot.com/2009/04/quine-sellars-empiricism-and-linguistic.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 > 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
