Hi Platt, Just started reading this string. I would describe Quality as an Expression.
Mark On Nov 21, 2009, at 7:47:14 AM, [email protected] wrote: From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MD] Freedom and the Good Date: November 21, 2009 7:47:14 AM PST To: [email protected] On 21 Nov 2009 at 15:58, Andre Broersen wrote: > Platt: > Pirsig calls Quality a moral force and refers to the creative power of > the Dynamic force a number of times. Since it's a natural force, it's > like gravity and other fundamental forces of the cosmos. To argue that > no one can precisely measure this force is not to prove it doesn't > exist. What proves it does exist is that the world would be > unrecognizable without it. > > Andre: > With all respect Platt, I think Pirsig's use of the word 'force' in > relation to Quality (as he does in LILA) is used metaphorically, not > literally. Perhaps you can explain for me the difference between a literal and a metaphorical force. Seems to me both connote change. Again, Pirsig is quite adamant to 'keep all concepts out of > Dynamic Quality'. (In McWatt, PhD).By suggesting it is a force in the > way you use it, you are making it into something static and that is > not what it is. (Not this/not that) Are you saying then that DQ is a sometimes thing, here today, gone tomorrow? > To describe Quality as a force is the same as describing Yin/Yang as > forces. They are not. How would you describe them? Thanks. Platt 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/ 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/
