[MD] Boromir's Journey

[Matt Kundert]

Hey John,

Matt said:
i tend to think it's best to stand aside from thinking of 
anything as a "perfection," as opposed to a "perfecting," 
a good sense which can be--but is not the only--sense to 
be attached to "betterness" being "perfection."

John said:
It sounds like you agree with us (Royce and me), Matt.  
"Perfecting" as opposed to "Perfection" is exactly the point.

Matt:
Yeah, but that the slogan "up with perfecting, down with 
perfection!" is exactly the point is where I wonder, and 
where my quibbles and explorations occur.  I think myself, 
gav, Steve, you, Pirsig, James, Royce (I take it) would all 
sign on to such a slogan--it appears like that would be the 
common ground.  But there's a difference: Royce is an 
Absolute Idealist.  What could that "Absolute" mean, if 
everything is in process?  The particular inflections 
philosophers make are important, just like the quibbling 
between "faith" and "hope," or with whether use of the 
system metaphor in enunciating your philosophy is a big 
deal or not, or whether pragmatists need to be 
concurrently mystics or else fall into relativism.

I see Royce's particular brand of Hegelianism the same 
way I see faith as opposed to hope--largely good, but I 
think we can do better in the long run.

Matt
 		 	   		  
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