Krimel said:
Reason is the late arrival even in evolutionary terms. Man seems to be the only
living thing we know to possess it. It also seems that the function of reason
is inhibitory. It serves to override the emotions and stop us from acting on
the immediate emotional "value" of the present. It helps us subordinate what
feels good to what makes sense.
Pirsig said:
"The MOQ says that science's empirical rejection of biological and social
values is not only rationally correct, it is also morally correct because the
intellectual patterns of science are of a higher evolutionary order than the
old biological and social patterns.
But the MOQ also says that DQ - the value force that chooses an elegant
mathematical solution to a laborious one, or a brilliant experiment over a
confusing, inconclusive one - is another matter altogether. Dynamic Quality is
a higher moral order that static scientific truth, and it is as immoral fro
philosophers of science to try to suppress DQ as it is for church authorities
to suppress scientific method. Dynamic value is an integral part of science. It
is the cutting edge of scientific progress itself."
dispute |disˈpyoōt|nouna disagreement, argument, or debate : a territorial
dispute between the two countries | the question in dispute is altogether
insignificant. See note at quarrel.
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