Hi Platt, Pirsig said the MOQ is an intellectual pattern and therefore part of the fourth level and he never described a fifth level. I agree with him. I can't see the MOQ as part of a fifth level because a fifth level would have to be categorically different from the fourth in the way that a living being is different from an inanimate object or a city is different from a living being or an essay is different from a city. I don't see this sort of difference in kind between the MOQ and some version of SOM. They are both still philosophies.
Reagrds, Steve On Monday, December 10, 2007, at 05:53AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Quoting Steven Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi Platt and Bo, >> >> Are you two saying that the 4th level is SOM? If so, is the OQ a fifth level? >> >> Regards, >> Steve > >Hi Steve, > >I can't speak for Bo but I think the 4th level is SOM. The MOQ stands at the >lower end of the 5th or art level because values are closely associated with >aesthetics. To reflect that association, I think Pirsig chose the art form of >the novel to present his metaphysics. > >IMO, >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/ > > 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/
