I believe Pirsig has tried to straddle the philosophical fence > by avoiding metaphysical explanations while leaning heavily on Zen > mysticism > for his epistemology.
Hi Ham Here's how I see it. Pirsig does do metaphysics, it's called the MOQ. But unlike earlier metaphysics he tries to keep it to a minimum. Why? because if you can make sense of experience by going beyond it the least possible then you are most likely to have gone least wrong. So keeping close to experience he says lets postulate two ontological concepts: DQ and SQ. Can (using just these and the idea of levels of SQ) we make good sense of experience? The answer I'd suggest is yes. A vast improvement on the mess and problems of SOM philosophy and metaphysics. Us MOQers accept metaphysics, we call it the MOQ, but we keep it toa minimum and find that this is good. You seem to think that unless you start creating a great host of pointless concepts it is not real metaphysics. I disagree and hope you can see this point. David M 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/
