[MD] Intellectual honesty

[John Carl]

RMP says:

"So It has really been a shock to see how close Bradley is to the MOQ. Both
he and the MOQ are expressing what Aldous Huxley called "The Perennial
Philosophy," which is perennial, I believe, because it happens to be true.
Bradley has given an excellent description of what the MOQ calls Dynamic
Quality and an excellent rational justification for its intellectual
acceptance. It and the MOQ can be spliced together with no difficulty into a
broader explanation of the same thing."



> dmb says:
>
> Pirsig's endorsement at the end? That's a good example of intellectual
> dishonesty. In this case, I'd characterize the violation as a "selective use
> of evidence". Anyone who reads the annotations can plainly see that Pirsig
> finds similarities with Idealism but he also grows increasingly irritated by
> Bradley's theism and he says the MOQ drops that part of it cold.



John says:

And I'd definitely characterize your "increasingly irritated" as the
plainest intellectual dishonesty.  How can someone become increasingly
irritated and then make an about-face that the author deems, "a shock"? and
all you point to is the increasing irritation?

I'd say the increasing irritation is in the mind of dmb, as the intellectual
dishonesty in construing your favorite "antitheism" quote as the gist of the
whole.

tsk tsk indeed.




He thinks its quite wrong for Bradley to be sneaking his theistic goods in
> through the back door. And of course I have not forgotten that you came here
> with a religious agenda and that Absolute Idealism is more or less your way
> to try and sneak your goods in through the back door.
>
>

Sneak?  I'm about as up-front and honest with who I am, where I come from
and what I believe as anybody on this list.   Just about everything that is
me is described in detail in these missives and open to perusal in the
archives.



> It's dishonest and sleazy. You know perfectly well what Pirsig said about
> the MOQ being anti-theistic.
>
> Deal with it.


I have dave.  I have and am and will.

I also know that when it comes to "dishonest and sleazy", you're the
expert.  Just like you're the expert on "projection".