[MD] The Relativist's journey

[MarshaV]

Greetings,

It's interesting to me that Pragmatism (James, Dewey, Peierce, Royce Thoreau, Emerson, etc.) was just about dead by the 50s, but had a revival in the 70s & 80s.  Do you suppose its revival didn't have its opposition?  Doesn't still have opposition?  Pragmatism may lose again.  To confine the MoQ within any particular tradition or jargonistic fashion or culture makes it a potential loser and RMP was correct when he wrote:

"The Metaphysics of Quality is not intended to be within any philosophic tradition, although obviously it was not written in a vacuum. My first awareness that it resembled James' work came from a magazine review long after “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” was published. The Metaphysics of Quality's central idea that the world is nothing but value is not part of any philosophic tradition that I know of. I have proposed it because it seems to me that when you look into it carefully it makes more sense than all the other things the world is supposed to be composed of. One particular strength lies in its applicability to quantum physics, where substance has been dismissed but nothing except arcane mathematical formulae has really replaced it." 
     (A brief summary of the Metaphysics of Quality, October 2005)
 
As philosophy grapples with the implications of quantum physics, new points-of-view are evolving which challenge scientific materialism.  Consciousness is being released from its confinement in the brain.  Special relativity, general relativity, superposition, nonlocality, complementarity are new concepts being explored.  When 'relativity' is such an important consideration in the new physics, it would be foolish to reject the therm.  I am not trying to exclude any term.  It's the small-minded who are trying to conflate, confuse and reject a term.  I am not trying to label the MoQ as a form of Relativism.  Truth is seen as relative within the MoQ, relative to the individual like in the Quantum point-of-view.
 
 
 
Marsha   
 

 
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