[Platt]
Pirsig as a postmodernist? You make me laugh. Pirsig proposes a
universal moral order. Postmodernists propose moral relativism.
[Arlo]
Ah, yes, the Big Bad Bugaboo of Postmodernism. Vile little
black-teethed "academics" who see no moral difference between
genocide and butterflies. Horrible little bent "men" who champion
molestation while seeking to enslave the Righteous. Apart from its
use as a right-wing derogatory slam, this label is applied almost at
whim to any number of modern authors and theorists, from art to
literature. Nonetheless, Pirsig's MOQ most certainly is "postmodern",
and the S/O metaphysics he seeks to overturn are quite directly the
"modernist" philosophy, if only in its base meaning of "any
pluralistic style that is a reaction against the pretensions of high
modernism" (Wikipedia)
As Ant had commented back in 2005, "The MOQ is, of course, valuable
in this regards as it shifts our metaphysical foundations from the
single truth of modernism to the gradable truths of the Good. As the
MOQ indicates, many truths do not entail that "anything goes" or that
you have to become a victim of existential angst."
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