[MD] David Hildebrand's Dewey

[Ian Glendinning]

That's the way I see it Matt,

Changing the rhetorical language changes the world-view / the mind-set
/ the paradigm (breaks the mind of logic, as koans do) but language
cannot confer definitive meanings on "things".

People who start their philosophical journey's from Pirsig seem to
forget he was a primarily a rhetorician - successfully contributing to
a paradigm shift.

Ian

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Matt Kundert
<pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ian quoted Hildebrand:
> QUOTE
> Dewey's entreaties—that philosophy start from lived experience (practically), motivated by moral ends (meliorism)—are prescriptive but necessarily vague. They pose a challenge to professionalized philosophers, who tend to respond by demanding specifics ...
> UNQUOTE
>
> Matt:
> Which is funny, because Rorty gets made fun of for being vague.  I think the reason they are vague, even necessarily so, is because they were both attempting to create an inspirational rhetoric to replace the inspirational rhetoric Plato created.  They weren't doing work in a paradigm, they were creating a paradigm.
>
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