Dave said "anti-intellectualism" Ian says "straw-man" Dave also said "sort of" Dennett says "sorta" Ian says "kinda"
Ian concludes "progress". On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:51 PM, david <dmbucha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Arlo said to dmb: > Yes, I think Goya's thoughts align more with ZMM's synthesis of classic and > romantic understanding than with LILA's DQ/SQ. It was with his statement that > "Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters" that I was > squinting a bit and seeing the necessary harmony between DQ and SQ come > through (something like "DQ abandoned by SQ produces chaos"), but this was > only an exercise in vague symmetry. > > > dmb says: > Yes, we get the same idea (don't abandon reason) where Pirsig says, > "classical, structured, dualistic subject object knowledge, although > necessary, isn't enough. You have to have some feeling for the quality of the > work. You have to have a sense of what's good." > > And that's the problem with anti-intellectualism. We do not want the kind of > intellectualism that cuts off imagination or prevents us from seeing Quality > but to abandon reason is to invite impossible monsters. It's regressive, > reactionary, devolutionary, and even immoral. > > > > 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
