Hi John, You said:
> It is interesting to me too, what you point out ... Steve wrote: > What is interesting to me once again is that despite the fact that >> "all the great spiritual leaders have held it as centrally important" >> in discussing morality, Pirsig does not talk about empathy, >> compassion, and love to explain morality. > John: > I guess what you mean by "does not talk about" is defining it exactly. > Because in my opinion, his entire oeuvre revolves around the very thing. > Because Quality IS caring. Thus love IS morality. And since he spent a > couple of books talking about it, I have a hard time following what you mean > by this. Steve: When I say that Pirsig does not talk about love, empathy, and compassion. I mean that as far as I know, the words "empathy" and "compassion" are not in his texts, and the word "love" is only used in ordinary "he loved chocolate cake" sorts of ways. But far more importantly, it is not just a matter of not using those particular words which the "great spiritual leaders" have used to talk about morality in Pirsig's talk about morality. He doesn't deal with those concepts by other words either. He doesn't talk about moral progress as self-enlargement, as the expansion of the circle of concern, the increased ability to sympathize with wider and wider groups of people from self to kin to proximate community to broader communities of humans while being more and more inclusive in who can count as a human deserving of respect. You say you disagree, but I doubt you can find any passages that talk about what the "great spiritual leaders" talked about in other Pirsigian terms. Best, Steve 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
