Ian to Arlo: I agree it mostly has it (maybe even 99% has it). Science is therefore morally supereior if and only if it really is an intellectual pattern. In practice it operates through many social patterns too. In theory science has the moral high ground ... in practice ...
Andre: Hi Ian, Arlo, of course this caught my eye as I was reading and the musings over this issue led me to start a new thread on the SOL/Intellectual level issue. Ian, you nailed it right to a tee: is the SOL a 'truly' intellectual pattern (or as Bodvar claims of course the dominating factor at that level)? This is what I just dug up from the Paul Turner letter: Pirsig: 'What complicates all this discrimination between intellectual and social thought are intellectual patterns that are no longer intellectually valid but are sustained by the social traditions that they created long ago. Religious beliefs are in this class. Classical physics is in this class. I think much of the opposition to the MOQ falls in this class as well'. '...classical physics eh? does he mean Aristotelian physics? meaning that the SOL is now sustained by social traditions and has no longer any intellectual validity as far as the MoQ is concerned? Interesting. Ahhh, points to ponder. For what it's worth. Regards 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/
