[MD] Freedom within structure.

[david buchanan]

Ham said to dmb:
... So now, Dave, you can either add me to your list of "incorrigible thinkers" or find some positive value in my criticism that merits your attention.  In any case, as one who respects your dialectical skills and logical mind, I appreciate this response to my recent post.



dmb says:

You're a very polite gentleman, Ham, but you're already on my list of incorrigible thinkers. As I've tried to explain many times, your conception of the self is exactly the conception that Pirsig, James and Dewey reject. It's a very, very common view in Modern philosophy and in common sense so it's not like I fail to understand what you're saying about the self. Apparently, you just don't see why this standard view is a problem and, what's worse is that you see the solution as the problem. Like I said, this is like criticizing Protestants for their failure to be sufficiently Catholic. Faced with such "criticism", the Protestant is just going to scratch his head and say, "Yea, I know Protestantism is not Catholicism. That the whole point of being Protestant."