[MD] The Level of Intellectual Quality

[MarshaV]

Dmb,

Mister, I'm not interested in hearing you 'locate Pirsig in the discourse by way of James.'  As I mentioned, i was hoping you'd demonstrate how RMP has brought James' philosophies together and moved them forward, but that's beyond your present situation.   

Four-letter word bad?  Should I be scared of your evaluation?   I'm not.   You're not my professor.  


Marsha



On Mar 10, 2010, at 12:30 PM, david buchanan wrote:

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> Marsha said: 
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> I don't give a bunny's butt about William James.   But then dmb has all that intellectual competency, I shouldn't disagree with him.  For the record, RMP, not WJ or dmb, is my favorite philosopher. 
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> dmb says:
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> You've outdone yourself. Maybe you don't give a bunny's butt about James but your favorite philosopher does. Pirsig explicitly identifies himself as an America pragmatist in general and a as Jamesean radical empiricist in particular. James and Pirsig are as alike as any two philosopher can be. Since there is so little academic literature on Pirsig and so much on James, the only practical way to locate Pirsig in the discourse is by way of James. The fact that you see so little merit in that says a lot more about you than me or James. I think it makes you look bad. Real bad. Four-letter word bad. 
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> And how much sense does it make to mock the value of intellectual competence in a philosophical discussion forum?
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