On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:11 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Steve said to dmb: > Here again it seems you are disagreeing with Pirsig who apparently saw the > need for such explication as MRB quoted from a N.Y. Times interview... [Mr > Pirsig] conceded that while he hoped his new book would "open a million > doors," he still had further work to do "on where exactly love fits in to the > metaphysics of quality." > > > > dmb says: > Really? You're going to base your point on a fragment of sentence containing > Pirsig's answer to a NY Times interview question about "love", a question > that the reviewer doesn't even bother to show us? > > Dude, that's so weak. The article begins by saying that the character of Lila > stole the show so much that some people read it like a romance novel and the > bulk of it is about how Pirsig has not written that kind of book. His second > book is his attempt to be taken seriously as a philosopher and you're going > to find fault in the fact that he doesn't use "love" as a central term in his > metaphysics? Frankly, I think that's just an idiotic criticism.
Steve: I said that I think more needs to be done to explicate love, empathy, and compassion in MOQ terms and cited a quote where Pirsig agrees and you say "that's just an idiotic criticism." Your defensiveness is so strange to me. It isn't even a criticism that I was making unless you can take it as a criticism that Pirsig didn't write three other books. Plus, even if it had been a criticism it would have been a criticism of the MOQ, of _Pirsig's_ philosophy not yours. In fact, my suggestion is something I would think might make sense for someone with academic aspirations to pick up and run with. Certainly no academic can make a career out of merely parroting what Pirisg already said without making any contributions. At the very least I would think that it wouldn't serve any good to try to shut down conversation on any aspect of Pirsig's work or work yet to do on following Pirsig's lines of thinking. 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
