Quoting Heather Perella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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: Wow. That's a lot of interpretation for a fairly simple declarative sentence. Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
