[Jos]
> Fair point,
> but even the words "dynamic" and "quality" are
> assumptions overlaid on that essential source.
By who? You? What essential source overlay,
what?
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> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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