From: Technotranscendence (neptune@superlink.net)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 21:11:38 MDT
On Saturday, July 19, 2003 6:14 PM Terry W. Colvin
fortean1@mindspring.com wrote:
> The pluralism attitude appeals to me. Any comments
> on monism, relativism, pluralism or postmodernism in
> general?
I think the list is a bit small and really is mixing apples and oranges.
Monism/pluralism are more closely related and relativism seems to go
more with pluralism is what I mean. You might consider Chris
Sciabarra's schema from his book _Total Freedom_. Though he focuses
more on political and social philosophy, I believe his ideas have
application here.
He sees there as being what he calls "methodological orientations."
These are ways one approaches a subject matter. He lists five different
methodological orientations: strict atomism, dualism, monism, strict
organicism, and, of course, dialectics. See
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/tfstart.htm for more on this.
Another thinker to look at is Stephen C. Pepper. According to Jeff
Riggenbach, Pepper there are different ways of philosophizing. He calls
these "world hypotheses" and he lists four of them: formism, mechanism,
contextualism, and organicism. I can explain more about this, but not
now. Me want watch DVD.:P
Anyhow, I just thought this might be a wider context to match Rowan's
work against.
Cheers!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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