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2013/4/20 MarshaV <[email protected]> > > 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 > -- parser 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
