[Craig, previously]
> A PRACTICE may be
> strictly SOCIAL if it is [a] ritual, but if it is "worked out intellectually",
> it is
> (at least partly) INTELLECTUAL
[Andre]
> 'if' it is [a] ritual (?), I am not clear
> what you mean here
Pirsig explains the importance of social ritual to the
emergence of the intellectual level:
"rituals may be the connecting link between the social and intellectual levels
of evolution.
One can imagine primitive song-rituals and dance-rituals associated with certain
cosmology stories, myths, which generated the first primitive religions.
>From these the first intellectual truths could have been derived...
Their sequence in history suggests that principles emerge from ritual, not the
other way around."
("Lila", p. 443)
[Andre]
> would you also agree that
> your response is very carefully worded
I would insist on it.
Craig
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