[MD] Pragmatism and Philosophical Mysticism

[david buchanan]

Thanks Dave. Angel's book looks very interesting. Northrop's "The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding" was Pirsig's main inspiration. He even says ZAMM is basically a popularization of Northrop's big, fat, academic book. The scope of my thesis is much more narrow than those books. I'm looking at books like "Exploring Unseen Worlds: William James and the Philosophy of Mysticism". Mine will be an inquiry concerning some very specific epistemological issues. I think what James and Pirsig are doing would fit into the kind of global understanding of enlightenment and the index eight or ten entries for James, but the "perennial philosophy" is a well established idea already. If I want to employ that idea, I'll probably use Aldous Huxley's classic.



> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:06:30 -0500
> From: combinedefforts at earthlink.net
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] Pragmatism and Philosophical Mysticism
> 
> DMB
> > I'm in the process of trying to make a case for philosophical mysticism
> > within the confines of academic philosophy and so those two issues are all of
> > a piece for me. 
> > 
> Of course you are probably aware that this has already been done at least
> once in recent times though not necessarily from an atheistic Quality
> perspective. 
> 
> http://www.douglas.bc.ca/programs/philosophy/faculty/angel/enlight.html
> 
> Enlightenment East and West
> by Leonard Angel
> Suny Press 1994
> 
> This book shows that mysticism is incomplete without scientific rationalism,
> and that our current social and political projects cannot be completed
> without assimilating the values and practices of mysticism.
> 
> It develops a comprehensive ethical framework whose vocabulary will be
> immediately recognizable to people of all cultures, and which permits
> fruitful dialogue to take place between people no matter how divergent their
> backgrounds and values. It then develops a novel theory of mystical
> experiential types, and uses that theory to show that mystical experience is
> of fundamental importance for the philosophy of mind and value theory.
> 
> The book also suggests a new view of the relationship between religious life
> and ethical life, mystical practice and social process, science and
> mysticism, and of the directions of history.
> 
> Dave
> 
> > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/210850553/direct/01/
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