DMB said May 20th 2009: Funny thing is, I'd just finished a 15 page term paper comparing Plato's Good and Pirsig's Quality. (Among other things, we read the Republic, where the allegory of the cave serves as one of three analogies for the Good.) So I was just covering the same ground for my Plato class. It was no trick at all to see that both terms are central in their own context. It could just be a reflection of the reading list for this particular course and there is a ton of Plato I haven't read but it's my impression that you can [not] tell a story about Plato without including the Good. Same with Pirsig and his Quality. They'd both tell you their central term refers to the source and substance of everything. If they were excluded, I wouldn't know how to say anything of any substance about either of them...
Ant McWatt just had to ask: Dave, >From your reading of the Republic and other research for your Plato/Pirsig >term paper, do you think Plato considered the Good as primarily static (as per >the other Forms) or essentially Dynamic (on the lines of DQ)? Moreover, did you discover anything else particularly significant in this Good/Quality comparison? Best wishes, Anthony . _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/ 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/
