Hi Ian, >[Ian] > But, Where are you going with this Dave ? > but I'm struggling to see what's new or what's the point ? >The "MoQ is screwed up beyond repair" (?), so .... what ... are you saying ?
In the words of that CW song, " I'm already there, take a look around.." For 15 years or so I've studied Pirsig's work and discussed it with others like you. I've recently come to the following conclusions: 1. Pirsig is a highly skilled writer and rhetorician. 2. The primarily value of his work is that it makes field of philosophy accessible to a much broader audience than a majority of "real" academic philosophers. 3. While his writing skills attracts a broader audience, that audience, you and I, is in general less skilled in philosophy than either Pirsig or people who pursue the field as a life's work. 4. Unfortunately he is a much less skilled scholar, philosopher, and metaphysician than he is a writer. Because of this the metaphysics he develops creates as many, or more problems than the system he is trying to replace. More dangerously he attempts to create a naturalistic moral metaphysics, one in which all of reality is a moral order based on a hierarchical system domination and dependence, that when applied by neophytes, such as a majority of the people here including me, leads to conclusions I find morally objectionable or just plain wrong. But that's just me. Dave 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/md/archives.html
