[MD] Dharma

[John Carl]

Let's just hold on to this thought for a minute, Adrie:

LILA-
> "This
> was occurring in what Phædrus had read so far. He was getting a definite
> impression that James' philosophy was incomplete and that the Metaphysics
> of Quality might actually improve on it.


Sounds to me like Phædrus just uttered a dmb no-no.  For to disparage Jame's
philosophy as "incomplete" is just not done around here, doncha know.



> A philosophologist would normally
> be indignant at the impertinence of someone thinking he could improve on
> the great Harvard philosopher, but James himself, to judge from what
> Phædrus had read so far, would have been very enthusiastic about the
> effort.


>From what I've read, I'd agree.  James was encouraging even to those who
disparaged his thinking (CS Peirce).



> Anyway, the reason Phædrus bought these books on James was that it was
> necessary to bone up a little in order to protect his Metaphysics of
> Quality against attack. So far he had pretty much ignored the
> philosophologists and they had pretty much returned the compliment. But
> with this next book he was unlikely to be so lucky, since a metaphysics is
> something anyone can pick to pieces. Some of them, at least, would be at
> it, picking and sneering in the time-honored tradition of literary critics,
> musicologists, and art historians, and he had better be ready for them.
> A review of his book in the Harvard Educational Review had said that his
> idea of truth was the same as James."
>


Well, I don't know if you can defend yourself against these
philosophologists by buying into their conceptualizations.  But I agree you
can at least get some good practice.



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>
> Strange, since Mr Buchanan did exactly the same as Phaedrus, buying all of
> James's
> works, to protect the notion of truth, to honour both Pirsig and James, to
> honour the moq
> and science, .....an exact mirroring here of all of the predicted in "Lila"
> in regard of this, is actually really happening like Phaedrus predicted
> before.
>
>
And you've ignored the fact that while Mr Buchanan might indeed be "buying
all of James's works"  Phædrus certainly did not.  You can't buy into
something that you state is "incomplete".