[MD] Zen and theArt of Religion

[Ron Kulp]

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> On Sep 3, 2014, at 5:32 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Jc:
> 
> "Rhetoric is an art, Aristotle began, because it can be reduced to a
> rational system of order.
> That just left Phædrus aghast. Stopped. He’d been prepared to decode
> messages of great subtlety, systems of great complexity in order
> to understand the deeper inner meaning of Aristotle, claimed by many to be
> the greatest philosopher of all time. And then to get hit,
> right off, straight in the face, with an asshole statement like that! It
> really shook him."
> 
> And here we are, less than 50 years latter, Andre-Buchanan can utter the
> same idea, dressed in an "MOQ" blanket, and nobody on this forum but I can
> see the great error, the huge mistake that is.  A statement that violates
> the very heart and spirit of the MoQ, That any sort of static pattern holds
> the keys on "all there is to say". Also contradictory to the doctrine of
> pragmatism and radical empiricism.   All is never said.  Conceptualization
> is subordinate to experience

Ron:
I think it is important to realize just what Aristotle meant by the term
"Art". For Aristotle art was synonymous with intelligibility.
Therefore rhetoric is an art because
It renders the unintelligible, intelligible. Art is meaning.
It took some time for Phaedrus
To realize this for himself but by
The end of the story he gets it and
Through that journey we are also
Expected to get it.


Get it?


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