Hi DMB
18 Jan.
dmb says:
> "The MOQ is a continuation of the mainstream of 20th century American
> philosophy. It is a form of pragmatism, of instrumentalism, which says
> the test of the true is the good."
OK, but read on
LILA: (DMB's parenthesis)
"James had chosen exactly the same words [static and
dynamic] Phaedrus had used for the basic subdivision of
the MOQ" (second to last page of chapter 29) "By this
[radical empiricism] he [James] meant that subjects and
objects are not the starting points of experience.
Correct, but this gives me the opportunity to unravel two basic
flaws. Flex your philosophical muscle and follow my reasoning:
James suggested a metaphysics of a dynamic something ahead of
static subjects and objects, Phaedrus (of ZAMM) did the same but
called the first part Quality, the second (S & O) part he called
"intellectual Quality" (the first MOQ's only level).
In ZAMM's diagram section a strange thing occurs. The box called
"Quality" (that necessarily must be DQ) is divided (an operation
that corresponds to the dynamic followed by the static) but the
diagram shows a unscathed Quality above DQ/SQ. This may be
done with motorcycles that remains whole after a theoretical
division, but once James and Pirsig had postulated something
ahead of the S/O they had created a dualism. Agree?
>From this "diagram fallacy" the mis-conception of a Quality/ MOQ
metaphysics springs, where Quality is the real thing with the MOQ
some theoretical play with words. This is positively wrong Quality
is intrinsically part of the MOQ. Another "fast one" is Pirsig's
statement that SOM splits a pre-existing reality the S/O way. The
point is that SOM does NOT recognize anything before subjects
and objects, THAT was James' and Pirsig's revolutionary insight
This is what the SOL interpretation puts right.
IMO
Bo
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