Quoting Krimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [Platt] > > I hope you are not dismissing the human endeavors involved in the arts as > > being of little value. > > > > [Krimel] > > I hope I have not given that impression. To every thing there is a season. > > [Platt] > Glad to be reassured of your worldview. Your enthusiastic description above > seemed to contradict Pirsig's conclusion about how science has negatively > affected the human condition: > > "Each individual in his cell of isolation was told that no matter how hard > he tried, no matter how hard he worked, his whole life is that of an animal > that lives and thinks like any other animal. He could invent moral goals > for himself, but they are just artificial inventions. Scientifically > speaking he has no goals." (Lila, 22) > > [Krimel] > While I don't wish to give the impression that I devalue the contributions > from other areas of human endeavor. I actually would like to contradict this > statement from Pirsig's. I think we are animals and have much in common with > them. They can and do teach us much about ourselves. But this portrait of > science seems derived from Fritz Lang's Metropolis. It is as through we > would all be better off starving in our caves waiting for the next plague to > take out half the village. We could all chant Kumbia while young mothers die > in childbirth. > > I just don't see science as in conflict with art and the humanities. But I > might have been casting spells in Norrath when they came by my cell of > isolation with the memo on hard work and futility. That or I trashed it, > thinking that it was spam.
I take it then that you agree with the notion that man invents morals for himself, are artificial and can be just about any old thing as opposed to Pirsig's thesis that morals are evolutionary, natural, and built into the fabric of the universe. In other words, you reject the central premises of the MOQ. Is that correct? Thanks, 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/
