On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Horse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Platt and Arlo > > To be picky about this and given Platt's previous assertion that SOM didn't > exist until Pirsig described it, the time-line should be something like: > > peyote-inspired revelation -> critical thinking -> MoQ -> DQ/SQ > > or something very similar. Neither MoQ nor DQ existed until after the > critical thinking stage! > > Horse Hi Horse, I see the time line differently: peyote-breakdown of static intellectual patterns allowing DQ to break through to reveal a new pattern -> thinking to name and latch new pattern -> more responses to DQ -> more thinking and latching -> more responses to DQ, etc., etc. -> MoQ (DQ/SQ). Platt On 29/10/2010 15:19, [email protected] wrote: > On 28 Oct 2010 at 21:54, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote: >> >> >> Interesting point, though, it was "critical thinking" that uncovered this >> inherent paradoxical core. And it was "critical thinking" that developed >> the >> Metaphysics of Quality from its initial peyote-inspired revelation. >> >> [Platt] >> What "developed" the MOQ was Dynamic Quality and Pirsig's response to it. >> Otherwise, the MOQ would be just another dull metaphysics like other >> intellectually guided ideologies. The missing ingredient from "critical >> thinking" is its ignorance of the moral force of DQ. From such ignorance >> the >> flaws of critical thinking flow, resulting, as Angell and Demetis expose, >> in a >> process "infested with paradoxes.". >> >> >> >> > 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
