Marsha to Andre: Right, and Buddhism is pragmatic and is based on a radical empiricism too. My concern is confining the MoQ to the Jamesian tradition.
Andre: No such 'confining' intended Marsha. I should also say that in both ZMM and LILA, Pirsig has referred more to Taoism and (Zen)Buddhism than to the Jamesian tradition. I assume Ham has read both books. I used the quote because I am not sure to what extent Ham is impressed by having his Essentialist convictions refuted or questioned based on 'mystical' Taoist/ Zen Buddhist insights, despite his self-proclaimed familiarity with Pirsig's MOQ. Mind you, it seems to me that Ham is not impressed by anything refuting or even questioning his idea 'Essence'. Too much invested in it I guess. 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
