Hi Dan, I like this explanation. It's a good way to put it. --- But having stated that, I blushed reading what you wrote; I must be like your mother.
Marsha On Mar 3, 2012, at 2:31 AM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:38 PM, 118 <[email protected]> wrote: >> David, >> If indeed emotions are a response to quality as you quote as an >> important statement, then you are creating two categories, one which >> is quality and one which is not (unless you are using this quote >> within a different context). Where do you see the separating line for >> these two categories? Both DQ and sq contain the word quality. What >> lies outside of that? > > Dan: > Robert Pirsig was responding to the charge that the MOQ is a form of > emotivism. By equating morality (or within the MOQ, value) with > sentiments and feelings, reality becomes as you like it. > >> >> Joe, is using the undefinability of emotions, not their static >> representations with words or concepts. That would be just plain >> silly, for an emotion is not a word or a concept, it comes way before >> that. Words are only used to "explain" an emotion, they are NOT THE >> emotion. There is nothing static about the emotion itself, it comes >> before the static. We cannot understand such a thing since it is not >> definable. > > Dan: > Emotions are a biological response to Quality. We say: I feel happy... > I feel sad... I feel angry... I feel love. Key word: feel. These are > all biological responses to Quality, not Quality itself. > > If a person tries to rationalize love, they'll fail. That doesn't mean > that love is undefinable, though. It means that love isn't an > intellectual response to Quality... it is a biological response. It is > like trying to define taste. > > What does an apple taste like? We cannot intellectually define taste > any more than we can intellectually define emotion. That doesn't mean > that taste is undefinable though. Just bite into an apple and you've > discovered the answer. Just fall in love and you know it. > > Thank you, > > Dan > > 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
