Andre,
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > May we all be reminded of John's letter to Horse more or less pleading to > be re-admitted to the MD: > > On September 16, 2013 John wrote: > Greetings MD Pirsigians, I've missed you all. The reasoning behind my > resignation from MD was valid, but has changed and I'd like a chance to > explain in detail, if you don't mind. The main reason at the time I left, > was escaping the conflict that came from my pushing of the Roycean idea of > an absolute. > > Andre: > Yes? > Jc: Of course I remember, Andre. >From Time, Will and Purpose: "The development of external boldness, decisiveness, cleverness, and all the virtues praised by "mock eloquent cant" of the euphoric masses is meaningless without the firm association of these virtues with excellent reflection upon our experience, and such reflection begins with the idea that *we could always be in error.* This is Royce's *fallibillism*. The fact that it has not been recognized in the literature on both Royce and Royce's commitment to fallibilism simply boggle my mind. What could be more obvious? And yet, supposedly intelligent people charge Royce with Absolutism, in the very sense contradicted by his argument from error?" Auxier, 68 It was at the August conference that I learned that Royce was no Absolutist and it was that insight which caused me to admit my error in pushing absolutism here at MD. The Absolute I repented of. Royce, never. John 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
