[MD] CA 2 - an aside

[david buchanan]

John said:

here's another flavor of Absolute Idealism,..  Don't you think this also harmonizes with the MoQ? He sounds like he's describing Quality, in it's most Phaedrusian originality, to a 'T": For Bosanquet, logic is central to philosophy — but it is ‘logic’ in a broad sense. He writes: “By Logic we understand, with Plato and Hegel, the supreme law or nature of experience, the impulse towards unity and coherence […] by which every fragment yearns towards the whole to which it belongs…”   the “inherent nature of reason” is “the absolute demand for totality and consistency”. Moreover, logic — “the spirit of totality” — is “the clue to reality, value and freedom”. 


dmb says:

Well, no. If anything, Bosanquet's view harmonizes with the original problem, namely the supremacy of logic and reason above everything else. Instead of saying logic was the clue to reality and values, the MOQ would say that logic is derived from value, which is reality. As Pirsig explains in those climactic scenes, quality became subordinate to reason somewhere back in Ancient Greece and then he pins it on Plato and his battle with the Sophists. And then there is the fact that Pirsig rejects the comparison with Hegel precisely because his view's absolute demand for totality and consistency.

No sir. I think you've got a tin ear when it comes to this stuff. As I see it, you just heard polka but you thought you heard jazz.