[MD] Politics and Change

[Heather Perella]

Platt,

     Platt, your conversation with Ian below, states
we abandon intellect?  Well, why don't you just come
out and tell us you don't think about anything you
discuss with us.  Am I to incline myself to believe
you don't think about what you say?  Are you a social
robot taking orders from others?  Come on, the
intellect is more creative than that.

SA   
     
> > Platt this is where your twisted rhetoric really
> grates ...
> > 
> > The quoted paragraph is about the then current
> perceived state of
> > intellect as "science the appointed intellectual
> pattern" - not all
> > possible intellects for ever.
> 
> So you claim intellect has changed in the short time
> Pirsig wrote those words?
> How would you convince him? 
> 
> > I think we've all agreed GOF "science" is not the
> whole intellectual
> > story. Scientific empiricism does indeed not "see"
> morals, but science
> > / intellect is more than the basic empiricism of
> science --- look at
> > the threads where we've been discussing exactly
> this.
> 
> Please specify the threads where Pirsig's view that
> the scientific worldview
> dominates intellect is argued against.  
> 
> > To summarise DMB - a flaw in one intellectual
> pattern is no reason to
> > abandon intellect entirely (and this is not a new
> complaint against
> > your stance).
> 
> What other intellectual pattern would you suggest is
> NOT similarly flawed.
> 
> Platt
> 
> P.S. Thanks for the gratuitous insult about "twisted
> rhetoric."
> 
> 
> 
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