[MD] The Art of Philosophy

[Michael R. Brown]

On 10/20/2012 11:39 AM, david buchanan wrote:

 > pragmatists like James "wanted us to give up 'ideologies'.” 
Pragmatism, he said, is “the attitude of looking away from first things, 
principles, ‘categories,’ supposed necessities; and of looking towards 
last things, fruits, consequences, facts.”

Which is why you say this:

 > the most hackneyed and cliched slogans of the GOP.

I.e., mere categories!

 > Similarly, Obama's Pragmatic attitude

Which leads him to ignore that his system isn't working, doesn't work, 
never works, can't work. And spout endless errors. And verbal gyrations. 
(Benghazi, anyone?)

 > no engagement with the ideas

The ideas in the article have been engaged with ad naus inf. The article 
is mealy-mouthed garbage. The Constitution is a living document because 
it offers what government needs: firm, fixed limits. Pirsig's Cycle 
wasn't made of diaphanous goo that wandered all over the road and five 
miles past it. It had a definite form and presumably still exists. 
That's what made it all possible. Were Pirsig and his son not separate 
people, there could have been no realization or connection at the end. 
Don't get Zen sickness by reducing everything to oneness.

 > This is what trolls do. They don't add to any conversation or debate 
or dialogue. They just shit on it and walk away.

Thank you for a meaningful contribution that doesn't in any way resemble 
standard liberal/dem/leftist boilerplate trollery. : )

I guess I'm a real MOQ'er now!


MRB