Hello everyone On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 2:31 PM, e-mail davidint <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Dan > > Sorry bit continental, I will add my thoughts tomorrow but this may be a > better pointer to what I am trying to get at... > > http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/you-cant-handle-the-truth > > All the best > Hi David Thank you for the link. It is a bit more decipherable. And I can see what you're on about but that does not alter my view. I lift this quote as an example: "The principle of unreason means, as the subtitle of Meillassoux’s book announces, the “necessity of contingency”: the absolute truth that nothing is eternal, that everything can transform or perish, even the human perspective. But in order for the principle of unreason to be true, Meillassoux continues, there must always be *something *beyond the “for us” perspective. In order to remain persistently agnostic about what lies beyond his consciousness, the rational “for us” thinker must commit to an absolute truth: that there is a world beyond his merely contingent thought. Starting from the premise of the “for us” thinker, Meillassoux thus gradually begins to work his way back toward the absolute — what he calls “the great outdoors,” the world beyond human perspective. Dan comments: If there is a world beyond human perspective, how can we know of it? We cannot say if there is or there isn't... we can say nothing at all about 'it.' Anything said is merely unverifiable conjecture. Now, it may be tempting to link this 'absolute' to Dynamic Quality but that is incorrect. In the MOQ, Dynamic Quality and experience become synonymous. Dynamic Quality is not beyond human perspective. The MOQ states that there is no 'ultimate' reality, no absolute. I haven't read the book but from this essay it appears Meillassoux is looking for some kind of absolute truth to hold onto. This type of inquiry has been going on for thousands of years. It is nothing new. On the other hand, the MOQ sees truth as high quality intellectual patterns which may change when new and better patterns emerge. I suggest rather than holding onto all that old tea in your cup to dump it out so as it can be refilled with something new and original. Look at the MOQ with a fresh set of eyes instead of comparing it to every old notion that comes along. I mean, if you really want to form an understanding with it. If not, fine. Keep on doing what you're doing. You can of course take comfort in the fact that you have plenty of company. Thank you, Dan http://www.danglover.com 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
