[MD] Philosophy and Philosophology

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Matt  

 29 July 

> Rorty once wrote that between him and Charles Taylor, another
> larger-than-life philosopher who wrote broad narratives about the
> course of culture and civilization, when it got right down to it in
> trying to decide whose way around the debilitating effects of SOM was
> the best, they'd probably end up talking about the details of their
> favorite poems and novels, rather than exchanging arguments about the
> concept of truth. 

"The debilitating effects of SOM" ..?? Are there other thinkers who 
have coined the term SOM? Not that I know of. As said there's no lack 
of wailing over the mind/matter schism and its paradoxes, but no one 
has - like Pirsig - pointed to it as having its emergence in historical 
times and thus being a new stage in a greater existential system that 
were at a non-S/O sage when SOM arrived. This about James, Dewey 
..etc. also being aware of SOM - in this context  -i s DMB's delusion 
too.    

Bodvar