At 05:44 AM 7/24/2007, you wrote: >Fair point, >but even the words "dynamic" and "quality" are assumptions overlaid >on that essential source.
Yes, I agree. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of MarshaV > > Sent: 24 July 2007 10:41 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Moq_Discuss] [MD] Aristotle & DQ > > > > > > > > From, 'A brief summary of the Metaphysics of Quality' > > by Robert Pirsig October 2005 > > > > "The Metaphysics of Quality, or MOQ, is simply a philosophic answer > > to the question of what is Quality, or worth, or merit, or value, or > > betterness or any of the other synonyms for good. There are many > > possible answers but the one the MOQ gives is that you can understand > > Quality best if you don't subordinate it to anything else but instead > > subordinate everything else to it. > > > > It says there are two basic kinds of Quality, an undefined Quality > > called Dynamic Quality, and a defined quality called static quality. > > Static quality is further divided into four evolutionary divisions: > > inorganic, biological, social and intellectual. Our entire > > understanding of the world can be organized within this framework. > > When you do so things fall into place that were poorly defined > > before, and new things appear that were concealed under previous > > frameworks of understanding. The MOQ is not intended to deny previous > > modes of understanding as much as to expand them into a more > > inclusive picture of what it's all about. > > > > The "Quality" of the Metaphysics of Quality is not a basic substance, > > or anything like it. The Buddhists call it "nothingness" precisely to > > avoid that kind of intellectual characterization. Once you start to > > define Quality as a basic substance you are off on a completely > > different path from the MOQ." > > > > http://robertpirsig.org/MOQSummary.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > > > This email was received from the INTERNET and scanned by the > > Government Secure Intranet Anti-Virus service supplied by > > Cable&Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. (CCTM > > Certificate Number 2006/04/0007.) 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