Platt:
> In the interests of being fair and balanced, this
> from the great author himself:
> BAGGINI: Although the metaphysics of quality is
> important in Zen and the Art of
> Motorcycle Maintenance, it seems to me that perhaps
> more important is a certain
> attitude to existence which it advocates. Is it
> possible to separate the metaphysics
> from this attitude and if so, which is more
> important to you?
>
> PIRSIG: Yes, the Metaphysics of Quality itself is
> static and should be separated from
> the Dynamic Quality it talks about. Like the rest of
> the printed philosophic
> tradition it doesn't change from day to day,
> although the world it talks about does.
> To use an Oriental metaphor, it is just another
> finger pointing toward the moon.
>
> --- From an interview with Baggini
>
> Perhaps my "weltenschauung" notion was not such a
> hot idea after all. Also
> Pirsig's answer implies the MOQ is a static
> intellectual pattern. That you disagree
> with Pirsig about this is noted.
SA: Pirsig isn't stating that the moq is ONLY a
static intellectual patterns. Pirsig is stating that
the moq is a static pattern. By this he's referring
to what metaphysics is traditionally patterned as,
which is a metaphysics is a definition of reality.
Pirsig is pointing out that any definition of reality
is a static pattern (thus all four levels). Notice
Pirsig points out that this definitional aspect, key
concept here is 'defining/definition (choose your
grammatical inclusion of define)', thus, this
definitional aspect of what a metaphysics does would
not be able to keep up with the changing "world",
unless, a metaphysics includes a mechanism that can
allow the metaphysics to change and keep up with a
changing world. The mechanism for the moq to keep up
with a world that changes is - dynamic quality, as
Pirsig points out above, "Yes, the Metaphysics of
Quality itself is static and should be separated from
the Dynamic Quality it talks about."
What Pirsig is saying, is, keep definition
separated from nondefinition, in other words, keep
traditional, defining metaphysics separated from world
that changes (dynamic quality), in other words, keep
static separated from dynamic. That's all Pirsig is
pointing out here. Here's talking about the first
split of quality here.
SA
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