[MD] Rorty and Mysticism

[Ian Glendinning]

Matt

Having clearly quoted Rorty as saying
"mystical experience" leads (via its rhetoric) to moral and
intellectual progress..
You said

"I (Matt) like the rhetoric of mysticism-as-poetry"
whereas
"Dave likes the rhetoric of mysticism-as-radical-empiricism"

You said your problem is relating these two ... reconciling Dave's
view with yours. I was simply pointing out that Rorty has already
joined mysticism to experience for you. What (either or both of) you
should focus on was relating poetry to experience, in order to find
the common rhetorical ground.

Ian

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Matt Kundert
<pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> I'm confused by what you meant here (whose problem, what the problem is):
>
>> I think your problem (Dave's problem with Rorty) is not so much
>> difficulty with mysticism-as-(radical)-experience, but
>> "radical-experience-as-poetry"
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