[MD] Pirsig, Peirce and Philosophologology re-establishing pragmatism

[Heather Perella]

     [dmb]
> Some of the most respected figures from the history
of
> philosophy were putting out some 
> really crazy stuff. And these grandiose notions
> usually have very little to 
> do with life as its lived. Its so abstract that it
> hardly relates to 
> anything a normal person would care about. I think
> that many of our 
> disagreement spring from this difference.


     Exactly!  This is what my dad used to say to me a
lot when I would get all abstract and stuck in the
head:  "So, what's that have to do with the price of
coffee?"  He was following in the tradition of my
grandmother who advocated being practical, and the
wisdom, she was a very wise women, she was, yes, very
wise.  And I may still go on saying this and analyzing
that, at times, but I still come back to drinking tea,
walking in the woods, listening to music, washing the
dishes, chatting, and such in this quiet place.  When
I do come back to these experiences I notice how I
conclude the same, and enjoy the sweet notion in
living.  Even while I sit drinking tea and my mind may
wander/wonder as the walk in the woods is a wander,
and still I'm just drinking tea, wondering about this
experience that is tea drinking.  What might this
wander have to do with tea drinking?  This
wondering/wandering each time while I tea drink and
still, I find myself just drinking tea.  So, what's
this have to do with drinking tea...well, the
conclusion I keep finding is - drinking tea - that's
what drinking tea is a conclusion of.

snow lit bright,
SA 


 
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