[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know that you've said you don't want to
"attack" the sci-method, and I'm not asking you to do that, but what are
your views regarding "cold objectivity" contributing to our current moral
decay? Is there any connection in your opinion? Pirsig thinks so, or so
it seems from the following quote:
(LILA page 351: "It's this intellectual pattern of amoral 'objectivity'
that
is to blame for the social deterioration of America...")
Yes, I think there is a connection between scientism and moral
decline, helped immeasurably by such philosophers of science as
Popper, Kuhn, and Feyerabend whose irrationalism gave aid and
comfort to the “postmodern” doctrine of “anything goes.” (For a
revealing description of their influence read “Against the Idols of the
Age” by Australian philosopher David Stove.)
Hi Platt
For the record, here's what I think about "postmodernism." I would agree with
its tenet that there is no such thing as Absolute Truth. But I'm totally
*against* using that tenet to support immorality or "anything goes."
Jon
