Ron: Essentialism, to me seems to be a cosmogony based on Cosmological dualism. It uses formal logical deductive Inference As it's proof creating A metaphysical cosmology. This ancient field of study seeks to draw intuitive conclusions about the nature of the universe, man, god and/or their relationships based on the extension of some set of presumed facts. metaphysical cosmology has also been observed as the placing of man in the universe in relationship to all other entities. This is demonstrated by the observation made by Marcus Aurelius of a man's place in that relationship: " "He who does not know what the world is does not know where he is, and he who does not know for what purpose the world exists, does not know who he is, nor what the world is." This is the purpose of the ancient metaphysical cosmology and tends toward the religious domain of which Pirsig strays from.
Robert Pirsigs MoQ, follows the school of continental Philosophy which questions whether the ultimate reason or source for the universe to exist can be answered normatively . Pirsigs MoQ is mainly ontological in nature concerned chiefly with physical cosmology and how it is viewed. Adopting the concept of universals as being "concepts," and therefore of the mind, and therefore controllable by free will. Thus, we get the analysis of Aurelius' that the nature of the universe is not from "intuition," but from a free-will, conceptual understanding of the nature of the universe. I think this is why you find fault with Pirsig. Everything you view as central, he dismisses as an Intellectual pattern. Pirsig is of the Physical cosmology school of thought Whereas you are from the metaphysical cosmology school. Therefore you really can't compare the two views As having more metaphysical foundation than the other. It's strictly a matter of opinion in this regard. The basis of Your accusations that MoQ does not fulfill the Requirements of a true metaphysics is academically Unfounded. 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/
