[MD] John Carl: Ignoramous or fraud?

[Adrie Kintziger]

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2016-11-09 21:13 GMT+01:00 John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>:

> Adrie and Dan,
>
> To tie off the end of this thread, I challenged Auxier on why agreement
> with Whitehead, was reason to disparage Pirsig?  Surely he didn't think
> Pirsig was a fraud?  His response and my answer are the end of our
> conversation.  If he ever answers me back, I'll post it.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Randall Auxier <personalist61 at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>
> > Who is disparaging anyone?
> >
>
>
> Jc:
>
>  When you said "Perhaps now you are beginning to understand why I am not so
> interested in Pirsig. I work on the real thing."  I felt  that was
> disparaging Pirsig.   And as our conversation developed, I wondered how you
> couldn't be interested in a recapitulation of Whitehead, especially such a
> popular one.
>
> RA:
>
>
>
> > Making an observation. I said I don't6 get anything from Pirsig that I
> > didn't already get from Whitehead. Still never finished Lila, but read
> > enough to see the idea. I know all this already. Didn't need to read it,
> so
> > it seemed to me.
> >
> > RA
> >
>
>
> Well... I think you ought to reconsider.  At least read Sneddon's thesis -
> its a good synopsis of Pirsig's view, by a professional;  and I think the
> comparison of the two is very fruitful.  If, as you point out, Pirig
> absorbed Whitehead's process philosophy at Chicago, well, he (Pirsig)
> certainly made a very entertaining and accessible approach to it.
>
> jc
>
> ----------------
>
> It's interesting that a Whitehead scholar rejects Pirsig as interesting
> because he doesn't add anything to Whitehead, but Pirsig scholars claim
> there's no real commonality between the two because Whitehead is just a
> dumb old theist.    I have to laugh, just like I have to laugh at the sad
> look on the faces of all the intellectual-know-it-alls who can't believe
> our next president.
>
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