[MD] Reason, Tradition, Absolute Truth

[ian glendinning]

Matt, in the same vein as Gene's response ...

You said
"... That analysis is the same one that makes the Reason/Tradition
distinction, the one I'm trying to call into question.  .....  That's
just bad Enlightenment philosophy,
SOM."

Just unpick that for me working back from the final sentence.

I see us "refining" an approximate tradition / reason distinction, and
better defining both reason and tradition in the process (using social
/ intellectual language), but are you saying it's SOMist to consider a
distinction on this axis at all ?

If you are, I suspect we really just have a lingusitic definition
problem somewhere.
Ian


On 6/7/06, Matt Kundert <pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Gene,
>
> Gene said:
> By cutting at this argument using the MOQ, the paradox seems to fall away.
> It's a social patterns of values whose purpose is to free up intellectual
> patterns from Society. It's just an example of the intellectual level
> growing out of the social level. It seems quite clear to me. Social backing
> up Intellectual.
>
> Matt:
> Presumably, given such an analysis, you would argue against traditionalists
> that their social patterns are attempting to restrict intellectual patterns,
> and therefore are bad.  That analysis is the same one that makes the
> Reason/Tradition distinction, the one I'm trying to call into question.  The
> social level is our traditions that reason has broken away from and that can
> now correct the social patterns.  That's just bad Enlightenment philosophy,
> SOM.
>
> Matt
>
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