Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > Don't you wish. You can run but you can't hide from Pirsig's words: > "Neither is there a quarrel between the Metaphysics of Quality and > the "teleological" theories > which insist that life has some purpose." You may quarrel until the > cows come home, but it won't change one wit what Pirsig said. > > [Arlo] > Unlike you, I don't pretend or ignore Pirsig when I disagree with > him. What you still have not answered, is "which" teleological > "purposes" are correct? All of them? Doesn't this make "purpose" > completely relative?
Well -- at last. You admit you disagree with Pirsig's including teleological theories within the MOQ. I was wondering if you would ever get around to that. > As for running from Pirsig's words, if you read Pirsig and feel that > he is proposing a Quality with a conscious volition and intent, a > Quality which formulates plans and enacts them, a Quality that orders > and controls the cosmos to its will, a Quality that ordered the > cosmos to produce "you", and sends cyclones against the Burmese > people as part of its "plan", then all you've done is turn Pirsig's > Quality into "Quali-god". Good luck with that. All Pirsig is proposing is evolution towards greater versatility and freedom. The other stuff you imagine is just that -- your imagination. ------------------------------------------------- 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/
