At 06:43 PM 11/24/2007, you wrote:
>Is the 'Code of Art' what Pirsig talks about when he examines why different
>people have different perceptions of Quality?
Hi Matt,
The only direct reference I could find in LILA puts it as one of four
moral codes, but its quite possible I'm missing something.
"As Phaedrus had gotten into them he had seen that the isolation of
these static moral codes was important. They were really little moral
empires all their own, as separate from one another as the static
levels whose conflicts they resolved:
First, there were moral codes that established the supremacy of
biological life over inanimate nature. Second, there were moral codes
that established the supremacy of the social order over biological
life - conventional morals - proscriptions against drugs, murder,
adultery, theft and the like. Third, there were moral codes that
established the supremacy of the intellectual order over the social
order - democracy, trial by jury, freedom of speech, freedom of the
press. Finally there's a fourth Dynamic morality which isn't a code.
He supposed you could call it a 'code of Art' or something like that,
but art is usually thought of as such a frill that that title
undercuts its importance. The morality of the brujo in Zuni - that
was Dynamic morality.
What was emerging was that the static patterns that hold one level of
organization together are often the same patterns that another level
of organization must fight to maintain its own existence. Morality is
not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of
conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of
evolution. As new patterns evolve they come into conflict with old
ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.
It's out of this struggle between conflicting static patterns that
the concepts of good and evil arise. Thus, the evil of disease which
the doctor is absolutely morally committed to stop is not an evil at
all within the germ's lower static pattern of morality. The germ is
making a moral effort to stave off its own destruction by lower-level
inorganic forces of evil."
(LILA, Chapter 13)
I'm sure he's written more, but I seem to be missing it.
Marsha
>On 11/24/07, MarshaV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > At 05:58 PM 11/24/2007, you wrote:
> > > I think it may be more of a personal ethical (although "ethical" is an
> > >insufficient/annoying word) code rather than an all encompassing one.
> >
> >
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > That's probably right. I've always wondered why so little was
> > written about the 'Code of Art'. It's probably that '10% inspiration
> > and 90% hard work' thing. All that sorting. I was just wondering
> > what others might have to say. Thanks for responding.
> >
> > Marsha
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