Ant,
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Ant McWatt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ant McWatt comments: > > John, > > In regard to your various comments about professional philosophers, yes, > good for you. > > To return to the motives of my last question (!), have you thought about > establishing a Royce Discussion Group as that would be a more a more > appropriate place for your interests? Jc: My interest is in the way Royce and Pirsig intersect. I know others do not believe this can be possible but my reasons are supportable. If James is a relevant topic in the MoQ, then Royce is as well because there's a lot to James that becomes clearer when you fully understand Royce. > As and when time allowed, I'd even help you set one up as that would give > me a good excuse to study Royce (though as a relatively mainstream > philosopher, I find it difficult to believe that someone else hasn't done > this for his work already). > "mainstream" in one way, but highly out-of-fashion and relatively unknown. The reasons are various but the gist of it is that for a long time, not that many people have wanted to discuss Royce, except for a close-knit academical community, going through those channels. I've already started a royce discussion group but haven't used it much. It needs more publicity and marketing, two traits at which I'm relatively poor. > > Anyway, Mr Carl, I'm just trying to expand my philosophical horizons > (especially regarding the American pragmatists). However, I simply don't > think MOQ Discuss is the appropriate place to do that. > Do you see the MD as primarily a place to promote Pirsig's social status? Because I see fitting his thought in with mainstream American Pragmatism as an important intellectual goal - not simply to gain academic "celebrity" but because mainstream American Pragmatism, is rooted in the American Indian experience as well and Lila had so much to say about those old ways. > > Finally, I'm sorry to hear about Bodvar btw. Let's hope he's just taking > some time off his philosophy board. > > He did pop up the other day but he doesn't have the energy to post much anymore. 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
