Steve, thanks. I heard about this book lila's child, but unfortunately I don't have access to it from my library! So I decided to jump in this discussion, perhaps a bit prematurely.
I think the interesting thing about this quote, especially in light of the replies I just made, is that in this other situation there is some judge of the battle, the supreme court! Tim On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:15:27 -0400, "Steven Peterson" <[email protected]> said: > Hi Tim, > > When I was first trying to wrap my mind about around what Pirsig was > getting at in Lila, I wish I had known what Pirsig thought was the > biggest improvement that he could make on it. He wrote this in his > introduction to Lila's Child: > > > "...the biggest improvement I could make in the Metaphysics of Quality > would be to block the notion that the Metaphysics of Quality claims to > be a quick fix for every moral problem in the universe. I have never > seen it that way. The image in my mind as I wrote it was of a large > football field that gave meaning to the game by telling you who was on > the 20-yard line but did not decide which team would win. That was the > point of the two opposing arguments over the death penalty described > in LILA.That was the point of the equilibrium between static and > Dynamic Quality. Both are moral arguments. Both can claim the > Metaphysics of Quality for support. Just as two sides can go before > the U.S. Supreme Court and both claim constitutionality, so two sides > can use the Metaphysics of Quality, but that does not mean that either > the Constitution or the Metaphysics of Quality is a meaningless set of > ideas. Our whole judicial system rests on the presumption that more > than one set of conclusions about individual cases can be drawn within > a given set of moral rules. The Metaphysics of Quality makes the same > presumption. " > > > Good luck, > Steve > 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 -- [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service 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
