Hi Horse On 2 Nov.u wrote:
> Hi Platt, Bo and others > So can you give me an instance of where Pirsig specifically equates > reason with SOM. I doubt if the term (reason) is used other than in the said "reasoning" context, not to speak of "....specifically equating reason with SOM", but French has its "Raison" and German its "Vernunft" that has a more objective ring to it than merely drawing conclusions. And that SOM=objectivity you can hardly deny*). BTW. This exemplifies the point that keep surfacing again and again. >From the inside intellect reason is the ability to think, while the MOQ sees reason as the ability to distinguish between what's TRUE (objective) and what's superstition, faith, belief (subjective) ... and that this is the highest static value! Bo PS *) the "SOM=Objectivity" assertion sounds a bit strange these days, after all the idealists claim that (objective seen) everything is subjective (mind). But this is the development that Pirsig describes in ZAMM having cone through so many convolutions that we have lost track of the original quality, namely TRUTH as independent of opinion emerged out of a past that did not have an inkling of this constellation. 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/
