Ham to Paul: This religious mysticism is all very intriguing, although certainly not rooted in the evolutionary hierarchy of Pirsig's thesis. Is it the product of your personal intuition or does it reflect your thoughts on some published source? You have us all mystified. I hope we don't have to wait too long for an explanation of this teaser which appears to be the result of an epiphany of some kind.
Andre:Hi Ham, Paul (liked your post) dmb and all, Ham, What Paul wrote lies at the very core of Pirsig's evolutionary thesis. Remember that the book which inspired Pirsig greatly is Northrop's 'The Meeting of East and West'. I suggest you have a good read of that (possibly thrice because it is difficult) and you'll find similarities. Moreover you'll find at its very core the unequivocal reality of the 'undifferentiated aesthetic continuum', (Pirsig's Quality) and its 'differentiated aesthetic continuum' (Pirsig's SQ). A very challenging analysis of the different philosophies developed over the centuries trying to make sense of the SQ whilst sometimes not, sometimes half and sometimes 3/4 missing the link with DQ. All philosophies pretend to know and claim the 'Good' , the 'Truth'. Whole societies having been and being built upon and around these 'ideas' all claiming to be the Good (or at least the vehicle towards this 'Good'). This has made it very difficult to sort out which is which.The relative merit of one over the other.Many interpretations of the 'Good' are circulating these days but fortunately most can be reduced to a few common denominators. Pirsig's contribution has been to sort out some of these conflicting, contradictory 'ideas' by synthesizing some and dumping others placing and sorting them in an evolutionary moral framework. This framework has also presented us with sorting out priorities for action, not necessarily on a political scale ( though this could be possible) but simple,personal action. It is suggested that 'Man is the measure of all things'. If I understand Paul's post correctly we should respond to the undifferentiated aesthetic continuum (not the differentiated) part of ourselves (which is not our 'I') and work towards making Quality the measure of all things. And we do this through our head, heart and hands.(ZMM) IMH Andre 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/
