Is MOQ a form of Transcendentalism? belief in an ideal spiritual state that
'transcends' the physical and empirical, and if it is what are the historical
consequences?
But I'm not convinced that this is Pirsigs conclusion, especially in the light
of his conclusion of Lila,
The conclusion that the MoQ is best understood in the statement that Good is a
noun not an adjective.
To make Good an abstract noun we apply the suffix -ness to form the word
"Goodness".
Goodness, Pirsig states is the primary empirical reality. In this light, what
does it mean to transcend
the empirical?
MoQ, to me, embeds a large portion of the traditions of American Philosophy
under the primary general
explanation of Quality or Goodness. Connecting the schools of
transcendentalism,
Enlightenment philosophers
and Pragmatism as well as Darwinism, Process Philosophy and analytic philosophy
as parts of a larger
explanation.
Does this concept of Goodness promote a monism of a sort that Thomas Paine
asserted when denouncing
the revealed religions of the world in his "Age of Reason" ? or does it point
to
an attitude more like that of
Doctor Pangloss in Voltaire's 'Candide"? that despite human suffering that this
is the best of all possible
worlds?.
If all Life is a migration toward goodness then it could'nt be anything else.
The struggle towards goodness RMP states is a struggle towards freedom.
But with freedom comes responsibility.
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