[MD] Are There Bad Questions?: Rorty

[david buchanan]

Matt:
I read this all the way through this bad boy but I don't get it. It's not at all clear WHAT the bad questions are or WHY they're so bad. (I've learned that elsewhere.) Isn't it all just a little too meta and not enough meat? Or was it your point to not have point, a performance of Rortyism at it's finest? 


“Pragmatists think that the history of attempts to isolate the Truth or the Good, or to define the word “true” or “good,” supports their suspicion that there is no interesting work to be done in this area. ... They would simply like to change the subject.”  (CP xiv)

Pirsig doesn't think the Good can be defined either and yet he does some pretty interesting work in that area anyway. In fact, that's the area he works above all. Big difference, you know? 



 		 	   		  
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