Ham said to Ian, Mark, and David:
The terms "static" and "dynamic" are nothing more than labels intended to
distinguish two modes of reality--empirical (experiential) and metaphysical
(ultimate). ...But there is no metaphysical reason to assume that the modus
operandi of the ultimate source is process in time. The spiritual cultures
that predated philosophy must have understood this, as religious people have
traditionally characterized their God as "eternal" and "unchanging'.
dmb says:
In the MOQ empirical reality is Dynamic and metaphysics can only ever be
secondary and conceptual - and that means metaphysical ideas are intellectual
static quality. This is approximately the opposite of your claim.
Before philosophy was born in ancient Greece only the gods were eternal. As
philosophy was first forming, one of the main questions asked what was eternal
in the affairs of mortals. That's when guys like Plato started inventing the
eternal fixed Forms, one of which was the Form of the Good. This is Pirsig's
central complaint and his main task is to undo that encapsulation and
subordination of Quality, to remove the fixity and rigidity and changelessness
that Plato imposed on it and reassert the primacy of the experiential flux as
it is felt and lived.
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