[MD] "RMP: Ignoramous or fraud?

[david]

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Adrie said:

This is clearly the correct context [of the Whitehead quote] and it is a theistic one, and that does not show on wikiquote or is derivable from the way John likes it to appear.  Now given the above one should also read the whole lecture to observe that Whitehead is pointing towards a sort of religious quality, with a quality beyond the quality. A holistic quality probably.


dmb says:

Process philosophy goes all the way back to Heraclitus and then some. James and Dewey got there before Whitehead or Pirsig but I don't think any of them would dare to claim to be its originator, not even Heraclitus. And the Sophists were teaching Quality a couple dozen centuries before any of them were born.

And speaking of fraudulent ignoramuses, nobody around here will be surprised if John has tried to slander Pirsig or if has dishonestly tried to smuggle in a theistic view. Again. It's like a hobby, I guess. Trolls will be trolls.