dmb, Marsha had said: Can you read? The subject line says 'philosophology'. Read again what Annotation 133 says about philosophology and try to understand RMP's words in that context. Do you understand the word 'context'?
dmb whines and tries to change the subject: ... ... snip. ... Marsha now: Don't misrepresent my post; look again at the subject line. RMP states in Annotation 133 from 'LILA's Child: "... I have read that the MOQ is the same as Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Hegel, James, Pierce, Nietzsche, Bergson, and many others even though these people are not held to be saying the same as each other. This kind of comparison is what I have meant by the term, "philosophology." It is done by people who are not seeking to understand what is written but only to classify it so that they don't have to see it as any thing new. ..." These are RMP's words. Perhaps you should read them again. RMP, in 'A brief summary of the Metaphysics of Quality', makes a similar statement: "I also have a concern of my own. This is the concern that philosophers, instead of coming to grips with the philosophy at hand, sometimes dismiss it by saying, “Oh he is saying the same as someone else,” or “someone else has said it much better.” This is the latter half of the well known conservative argument that some new idea is (a) no good because it hasn't been heard it before or (b) it is no good because it has been heard before. If, as has been noted by R.C. Zaehner, once the Oxford University Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, I am saying the same thing as Aristotle; and if, as has been noted in the Harvard Educational Review, I am saying the same thing as William James; and if as has been noted now that I may be saying the same thing as Spinoza: then why has no one ever noticed that Aristotle and Spinoza and William James are all saying the same thing?" And previously in the same document: "The Metaphysics of Quality's central idea that the world is nothing but value is not part of any philosophic tradition that I know of. I have proposed it because it seems to me that when you look into it carefully it makes more sense than all the other things the world is supposed to be composed of." Marsha 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
