[MD] What is Zen?

[david buchanan]

Marsha and Platt and Bo all asked:
Name ONE intellectual pattern that is not SOM.


dmb says:

On top of the several named by Pirsig, I have posted quotes from a number of philosophers wherein they specifically reject SOM. Hegel, Heidegger, Dewey, James, Pirsig of course, Hildebrand, Stuhr, Rosenthal, Brown, Taylor, Hickman. But I guess they don't count because they're "intellectuals" and by your definition anything intellectual is SOM. They're screwing everything up, right? 

Do you not see how this makes it impossible to reason with you? It doesn't matter what anyone says because you understand this better than all the philosophers in the world, right?

Where do you get the gall and what was thing about humility? Seriously. Why not read a book or something? People besides Pirsig do talk about this issue, you know? James and Dewey were completely unaware of the MOQ and yet they said the same thing about SOM. Pirsig tells us this about James. What reason do you have to disbelieve him about that? You have no REASON to dislike the other radical empiricists.








 		 	   		  
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