Greetings Ham,
I not only understood your posts, but agreed wholeheartedly, and that
felt very good.
Marsha
At 02:05 PM 6/29/2009, you wrote:
Hi Marsha --
I agree with Platt. Your last few posts in defence of Value and
presenting your insight into RMP's view were quite wonderful,
and I was quite taken back at how much your view seemed to
blend perfectly with the MoQ. It could be that my view had
broadened as much as yours had changed. Anyway, it made me happy.
Glad to have made you happy, Marsha. But, as you must know,
Essentialism as posited by Ham has always been a valuistic
philosophy. To avoid controversy, I have made some effort lately to
reconcile my metaphysical worldview with that of Mr. Pirsig. For
example, I concede that Value is paramount in existence because it
is man's link to the essential source. However, although our primary
sense of value is undifferentiated, it is always experienced as
relative rather than absolute. It is relative to the observing
subject and specific to the objective phenomenon experienced.
Anything that is abstracted and objectivized ("patterned") in a
relational way cannot be Absolute Essence which contains no
"otherness". That is my major quarrel with Pirsig's "universal"
DQ. He implies that Quality is the source of reality, yet his
description of it is limited to experiential existence, or at least
to the quality patterns that represent the physical universe.
Another difference in our philosophies is the suggestion that
Quality (DQ) evolves to "betterness". If anything moves to
betterness it is man and his value-sensibility. The primary source
of an evolving universe cannot itself evolve. Essence is not only
absolute and uncreated but immutable, and that's why the individual
self can only partake of it valuistically.
Anyway, thanks for the nice words.
Essentially yours, as always,
Ham
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