Quoting Ham Priday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt, to Ham]: > > Apparently you are unfamiliar with Pirsig's rationale for > > extending the meaning of morality. ... > > > > "The idea that the world is composed of nothing but moral > > value sounds impossible at first. Only objects are supposed > > to be real. 'Quality' is supposed to be just a vague fringe > > word that tells what we think about objects." > > > > He then proceeds to explain why morality better explains > > the concepts of "substance" and "cause" -- foundations of > > the subject/object worldview.
[Ham] > What I see as Pirsig's "rationale" is to re-arrange the attributes of > existence to invent a new perspective. Yes, a new perspective that overcomes the failure of subject-object metaphysics to 1) unite quantum uncertainty with the certainty of a cause-effect world, and 2) integrate the sciences and humanities. > Like the cartographer who, feeling a > bit tipsy one day, looks at a relief map of the world and decides to draw > his own boundaries, Pirsig looks at common experience and divides it up in > an uncommon way, making Quality the "moral superpower" and classifying > subjective and objective elements as its subordinate levels. You portray Pirsig's perspective as arbitrary. Nothing could be farther from the truth. > Having > redefined everything to suit his moralistic rationale, he sits back and > says, "See--this is what reality really is. Isn't morality wonderful?" How > stupid of us ignoramuses not to see that we were looking at morality all the > time! He doesn't say that at all. A totally unsupported, unfair characterization. I'm surprised, Ham, that you attempt to belittle a fellow philosopher because you happen to disagree with him. Best regards, Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
