Greetings, Joe --
Nice to hear from you again. According to my records, we haven't talked
since December of 2009 when you began to find my ontology "humorous". I was
trying to market a serious book on philosophy at the time, and the comic
attribution wasn't helpful. But except for a brief exchange on 'the
perennial philosophy' in May, 2010, you seem to have disappeared until now.
On Apr 4, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Joseph Maurer <[email protected] wrote:
Hi Ham and all,
"uncreated, undifferentiated, and unchanging" denies DQ/SQ.
The Metaphysics connected to dq/sq is about undefined/defined
levels in existence not levels in imagination. DQ exists in levels of
evolution. SQ is the manifest evolution in the order in existence.
Imho Joe
"Undefined/defined levels in existence" may be a division of the MoQ, but
"levels" do not constitute the primary division in metaphysics. As the
philosophy of reality, metaphysics aims at a doctrine that accounts for the
division between the fundamental source and the defined particulars, between
absolute potentiality and relational actuality. Evolution and process are
attributes of space/time existence, as are cause/effect and the
subject/object (selfness/otherness) dichotomy. Since what is manifest is
defined, there are no "undefined levels" in existence. Manifested "levels
of evolution" is how we define the order of existence, not the primary
source from which existence is actualized.
I don't know what "levels in imagination" refers to, as all levels are
definable and there are no levels in my ontology. However, I'm in agreement
that unconditional reality (Essence) is incompatible with your
interpretation of DQ/SQ.
Essentially speaking,
Ham
On 4/4/11 10:45 AM, "Ham Priday" <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip>
The transitional world we live in is differentiated into solids, liquids
and
gases; animals, vegetables and minerals; and a multiplicity of objects,
all
of which can be defined and described. We call this our "reality" and
Mr.
Pirsig calls it a "subject-object metaphysics". But, to borrow from
Hegel,
it's really a world of "appearances". Underlying these appearances is a
fundamental Reality that is uncreated, undifferentiated, and unchanging.
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