[MD] subject/object: pragmatism

Krimel Krimel at Krimel.com
Sun Nov 11 08:28:15 PST 2007


DM
Don't we need a name for the kind of culture that has replaced
a mythic, theist, traditional, authoritarian and more static one?

[Krimel]
The Enlightenment, perhaps?

> [Krimel]
> I would argue that the important thing in Greece wasn't Socrates, Solon or
> Pericles but Pythagoras and Euclid. It was the introduction of formal 
> proofs and a systematic rule based approach to the quest for knowledge. 
> But I would agree that Pirsig has done us no favor by claiming that the 
> Greeks invented intellect.





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