Pirsig's point is that even the blank wall has it's quality Is it well built? Is it level and square? Does it have good foundation? And so on.
So even the blank wall has its quality. In fact because it's a simpler form, it's quality would be more universal than a piece of art whose quality hinges on culture, space and time. Khaled On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:24:58 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In ZMM, Pirsig uses realism to "prove" that Quality exists. > Regardless or > not if you subscribe to that theory, the line of logic he uses > seems somewhat > questionable. In claiming to remove "Quality" from the world, he > isn't > removing Quality per se, but rather removing differences between > objects. By > removing the distinction between fine art and a blank wall, he > isn't removing a > definitive aesthetic judgment, but rather our ability to perceive a > difference > between two scenarios. > > 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/
