Hi Platt 16 April you wrote:
Platt originally: > > > If the MOQ can't be an intellectual structure, what is it? Bo: > > Yes, I have wrestled with this question and tried a lot "openings" > > for instance this. If you are a true Christian (meaning not buying > > any modern psycho-talk about it being a subjective faith) what is > > "Christendom"? Or what is "Islam" to a devoted muslim? It's the > > reality you live in. Not any SOM-Aristotelian "theory about reality" > > but in the Pirsigean "ordered universe" sense. Platt: > Would the German word "weltanschauung" be close to your concept? > Webster defines it as "a comprehensive conception or apprehension of > the world especially from a specific standpoint." Sure it's a "weltanschauung", but the problem is the notion that it is to be found somewhere inside itself. In spite of the container metaphor the MOQ as an intellectual pattern has become dogma. It stems from Pirsig's deviation from his original definition of metaphysics as the most basic ordering of reality to the sudden retreat to a mere theory about reality. And when at it. Does SOM "say" that it is a subject/object ordering of some X reality? No, it doesn't, SOM is the very notion of an indefinable reality that we make up theories about, thus we see that Quality as indefinable and the MOQ a mere theory is a perpetuation of SOM. Bo 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/
