Steve Chris earlier: >>Fair enough. The following taken by itself from a general metaphysical >>view >>(my interpretation of the MOQ) :Do you not agree with my general >>assessment >>that people can be predominated with either the social or the intellectual >>level (and in some cases the biological)? And do you not agree with my >>assessment that to be dominated by one of these patterns makes one view >>things fundamentally different? > > > Steve: > That is the whole point of Pirsig using the characters of Lila, Rigel, and > Phaedrus. They each represent a level of value patterns and they > definitely saw things differently. > > I would just coment that I don't think we can say which type of pattern > dominates a specific person. How can you say that any type of pattern > dominates anyone more than inorganic patterns? > > I do think you can talk about the relative dominance of different types of > vale patterns. Rigel was certainly more dominated by social patterns than > Phaedrus was.
I think one can, really. Or rather, one can look at certain actions and see if they are socially motivated or intellectually motivated or biologically motivated. I mean, all humans have the ability to "think" - that is, use their brain (a biological pattern) and the way this is done is determined by whether they are reacting to Social Quality, Biological Quality, or Intellectual Quality (reason). If someone for example does something that is clearly unreasonable, but perhaps is aimed at heightening that persons Social Quality at a given moment (Thay could get in a fight for example) then that shows what I am talking about. All for now Regards Chris 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/
