re 2010/12/5 david buchanan <[email protected]>
> > Mark said: > It sounds to me like you are putting Quality in some kind of Truth > category. How do you get around that with your interpretation of Quality? > These distinctions are man-made, where does the truth come from? > > dmb says: > No, I'm just saying that the difference between the biological and the > social a widely known distinction. This distinction is intellectual and > fairly obvious and I really don't see how anyone can get through college > without bumping into it repeatedly. None of this has anything to do with > subordinating Quality to truth. Truth is a kind of static quality, namely > intellectual static quality. And this particular truth is just about the > distinctions between our cultural values and our animal instincts. Marriage > confines the acceptable limits of the expression of our sex drive and the > prohibitions against murder put restriction on the expression of the > instinct to violence and aggression. As far as I know, no serious person > would dispute this. That basic idea explains quite a lot. It's one of the > most useful generalizations ever invented. > > Oh yea, I'm talking to a guy who thinks Stephan Hawking is a loser and who > thinks evolution is a stale idea. It seems you have a fondness for rejecting > some of the best ideas in circulation. For a minute, I forgot who I was > dealing with. > > Anyway, for those who are interested in truth, you might want to know that > Pirsig agrees with the pragmatic theory of truth, particularly James's > version of that truth theory. > > "James said, 'Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually > supposed, a category distinct from good, and coordinate with it.' He said, > 'The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of > belief.' TRUTH IS A SPECIES OF GOOD. That was right on. That was EXACTLY > what is meant by the Metaphysics of Quality. Truth is a static intellectual > pattern WITHIN a larger entity called Quality." (Lila, pp. 363-4. Emphasis > is Pirsig's) > > > > 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 > -- parser 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
