[MD] Two Realizations

[david buchanan]

John said to dmb:
Don't feel quite so cranky as I did about your ignorant disparagement of me as I used to, now that Josiah has helped me understand.



dmb says:

If you could just step back and try to take a fair-minded view of the situation, I think you'll see that my "disparagements" were neither "of you" nor were they ignorant. There are very good reasons to reject Royce. James practically built radical empiricism to defeat Absolutism of any kind and even if it weren't wildly at odds with Pirsig's kind of pragmatism, it is basically a dead philosophy. It's not about you, John. The greatest, smartest, handsomest dude in the world could dish it up and it would still be Royce. 

I also happen to think you're in way over your head. But that's a separate issue.


Think about how rude it is to drop by on a friend. Think about how uncool it is to interrupt your buddy and then maybe get angry or hurt because he doesn't want to drop what he's doing.

And think about trying to cram Royce down my throat in this forum.

It's the same thing, really. They're both rude in a self-indulgent sort of way.

I think a reasonable guy would see why selling Royce here isn't such a great idea and then he'd realize it was silly to take that rejection personally.


  		 	   		  
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