[MD] Are There Bad Questions?: Rorty

[Matt Kundert]

> [Steve]:
> > Necessary to whom? I certainly couldn't do any of the things
> > I want to do without a universe.

Ham said: 
> No, nor would you be here without a universe.  But your Catholic friend was 
> asking for your answer as to "why does anything at all exist?" and you 
> called it a "bad question".  I pointed out that Heidegger considered it the 
> fundamental question of metaphysics.

Matt:
Yeah, and Steve is telling Heidegger he's pissing up the 
wrong tree.  You say later that neither Steve nor Pirsig 
want to "confront metaphysics head-on," but Steve's saying 
confronting "metaphysics," as you've construed the discipline, 
head-on is like confronting a mist head-on: what you should 
do is blow it off to see the ground.

Matt
 		 	   		  
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