[MD] Essentialism

[david buchanan]

Ham said to Steve:
Yes, I am disappointed that a participant in this elite forum would declare "essence" an invalid philosophical concept, "the sort of thing we pragmatists don't want to think about."  Wouldn't you be "irked" if I (an essentialist) posted an essay asserting that pragmatists are atheists who don't believe in anything that doesn't have utilitarian value?



dmb says:

That's just it, Ham. Just about all you've ever done is assert essentialism in a forum dedicated to the discussion of an anti-essentialist philosophy. So who is irking who? You're like a klansman at a NAACP convention or a drunk at AA meeting. This is why nobody can believe that you've ever actually read Pirsig's books. If you have, then your reading comprehension level is wholly inadequate. Your essentialism only serves to illustrate what the MOQ is not. What you count as central, the subject, counts as a ridiculous fiction. It's been said many times in many ways by lots of different MOQers so I fail to understand why this complaint does not register. I have to say, it makes you look pretty darn thick. What's it gonna take, Ham? Apparently, somebody is going to have to go over to your house, write this point down on a piece of paper in large block letters, staple it to your nose and then put you in front of a mirror. Then maybe you'll see it, although I'm not gonna hold my breath.




 		 	   		  
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