Hi Bo: >Steve: >> Can forward your letter to RMP and his response? > >This is the part of my letter that treated the said point: > >(August 2005) >"But if one studies the early books of the Bible or if one studies >the sayings of primitive tribes today, the intellectual level is >conspicuously absent. The world is ruled by Gods who follow >social and biological patterns and nothing else." I agree most >vehemently with this, and in my opinion it's plain what is >"conspicuously absent" but would have liked to hear your >opinion. So if you have the time and care for it." > >Pirsig: > Flattery will get you nowhere ;-) I suspect you want to > hear that what is "conspicuously absent" is SOM, but I am > not sure that SOM was absent in early Biblical times since > early social statements such as "Beware of the crocodile!" > or "Javeh will reward you," are SOM but are not > intellectual in the MOQ sense.
Steve: I disagree that these statements are SOM. I can't see how these statements presuppose subjective/objective knowledge distinctions >A number of critics have > tried to attack the MOQ by defending SOM, but dwelling > on SOM is somewhat irrelevant to the MOQ. It¹s like > critics of Christopher Columbus who demand that he > show what¹s wrong with the city of Genoa before he is > permitted to sail away. He shouldn¹t have to. One can > argue forever about what SOM is or is not, but the MOQ > does not need to wait until that argument is resolve Steve: This is definitely off point. Bo: >I don't know who defends SOM but it may be that he sees SOL as >such, although I doubt he understands it at all. I have another >letter where I ask about Phaedrus /ZAMM) who clearly identify >intellect with the S/O divide. His reply to this is even more >irrelevant. This letter I haven't transcribed from paper, but if you >are interested? Steve: Thanks, Bo. No need to transcribe if it is as irrelevent to your concerns about the S/O level as the above. Regards, Steve 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/
