Hi Platt,
Mr. Brooks is a good man, the MOQ is a great world-view and Mr.
Pirsig is a shaman and artist. Thanks for posting this editorial.
Marsha
At 09:17 AM 4/7/2009, you wrote:
All:
David Brooks has a column in today's New York Times entitled "The End of
Philosophy," parts of which might have been written by someone very
familiar with the MOQ. For example:
"Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers
embrace a different view of morality. In this view, moral thinking is more
like aesthetics. As we look around the world, we are constantly evaluating
what we see. Seeing and evaluating are not two separate processes. They are
linked and basically simultaneous.
"As Steven Quartz of the California Institute of Technology said during a
recent discussion of ethics sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation,
"Our brain is computing value at every fraction of a second. Everything
that we look at, we form an implicit preference. Some of those make it into
our awareness; some of them remain at the level of our unconscious, but ...
what our brain is for, what our brain has evolved for, is to find what is
of value in our environment."
The rest of the column continues in the same vein with typically liberal
emphasis on the social values of co-operation, empathy and altruism.
(Brooks who advertises himself as a conservative is really a closet
liberal.)
I think you may enjoy reading how close Brooks comes to acknowledging what
we have known for years. His basic mistake is in the title, "The End of
Philosophy." If someone would introduce him to ZMM and Lila he might well
change the title to, "From a New Metaphysics a New Reality."
You can get the column at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07Brooks.html?_r=1
Platt
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