First impression TE ... excellent. Method rather than physics - let's focus on the processes rather than abolsute foundations. Agreed
Scientific method without understanding is a poor science ... an indication that science is missing something. Agreed Reading Emerson - for a fact ? Couldn't say, but no evidence that I'm aware of. Given the evidence of how he was "inspired" to MoQ, I'd say No. If he read Emerson later, he's kept it quiet. Ian On 8/15/07, TE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe, Ron, Ham and anyone else that took part in the "Metaphysics, substance, > intellect" string, > > I would like to put forth a new, more refined version of the same > contemplation I previously interjected. > > My intent is to spark a discussion about philosophy and method. [(tangent) > imagine instead of "MetaPhysics of quality", "Method of Quality"] > > (i think) Pirsig, did somthing amazing. He qualified the "mysical" as a > higher (broader) order of thought than the scientific; many people have > proclamed this before; but Pirsig, in my opinion, succeeds at making an > argument within a logic structure that when contemplated using the scientific > method one could only agree with his conclusion, without understanding it. > > I am fascinated by the fact that the proceeding was written or' one hundred > years ago. > > "Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of > thought. Great havoc makes he among our originalities. We have reached the > mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached. The Bible of the > learned for twenty-two hundred years, every brisk young man who says in > succession fine things to each reluctant generation,- Boethius, Rabelais, > Erasmus, Bruno, Locke, Rousseau, Alfieri, Coleridge,- is some reader of > Plato, translating into the vernacular, wittily, his good things. Even the > men of grander proportion suffer some deduction from the misfortune (shall I > say?) of coming after this exhausting generalizer." > From "Plato; or, the Philosopher" Lecture > > does any one know for a fact that pirsig read and was influenced and inspired > to fullfill emersons work? > 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/ > 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/
