[MD] Bo's right! For all the wrong reasons? (Part2)

[Ian Glendinning]

But isn't that just the "little knowledge" argument Dave ... is a
dangerous thing.

Clearly, in the wrong hands the ill-advised with ill-intent, could do
a lot of moral damage with ... just about anything.

My view is pragmatic. Name a preferable metaphysics, or working
world-view / model, or suggest why giving up seeking to find
improvement is preferable to "what the heck, it's not worth the effort
of managing the risks".

I've no illusions over the MoQ's imperfections, and Pirsig's
imperfections are manifest, but ... so ... what ...

Ian

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:32 PM, David Thomas
<combinedefforts at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>>[Ian]
>> But, Where are you going with this Dave ?
>> but I'm struggling to see what's new or what's the point ?
>>The "MoQ is screwed up beyond repair" (?), so .... what ... are you saying ?
>
> In the words of that CW song, " I'm already there, take a look around.."
> For 15 years or so I've studied Pirsig's work and discussed it with others
> like you. I've recently come to the following conclusions:
>
> 1. Pirsig is a highly skilled writer and rhetorician.
> 2. The primarily value of his work is that it makes field of philosophy
> accessible to a much broader audience than a majority of "real" academic
> philosophers.
> 3. While his writing skills attracts a broader audience, that audience, you
> and I, is in general less skilled in philosophy than either Pirsig or people
> who pursue the field as a life's work.
> 4. Unfortunately he is a much less skilled scholar, philosopher, and
> metaphysician than he is a writer. Because of this the metaphysics he
> develops creates as many, or more problems than the system he is trying to
> replace. More dangerously he attempts to create a naturalistic moral
> metaphysics, one in which all of reality is a moral order based on a
> hierarchical system domination and dependence, that when applied by
> neophytes, such as a majority of the people here including me, leads to
> conclusions I find morally objectionable or just plain wrong.
>
> But that's just me.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Moq_Discuss mailing list
> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.
> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org
> Archives:
> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/
> http://moq.org/md/archives.html
>