dmb, >From LILA's CHILD: "The MOQ sees emotions as a biological response to quality and not the same thing as quality."
Rah, rah! Is this textual evidence too? Marsha On Jul 29, 2012, at 5:04 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dave Thomas said: > ...I think one of the weakness of Pirsig's ideas is that it can lead people > to believe that for instance emotions (supposedly exclusive to the biological > level) have no effect on reasoning (supposedly exclusive to the intellectual > level) when in the heat of the moment (even a calm contemplative moment) they > all may have some influence on decisions. > > dmb says: > Pirsig can lead people to believe that emotions have no effect on reasoning? > I think it's pretty clear that Pirsig meant to lead people to believe exactly > the opposite. The notion that passions and emotions cloud our judgement goes > all the way back to Plato, at least, and we find this in the Modern > philosophical admiration for interested observation and in scientific > objectivity but that's what Pirsig is attacking, NOT promoting. He says it > many times and in many ways but the following quote gets right to the point... > > > "In the past our common universe of reason has been in the process of > escaping, rejecting the romantic, irrational world of prehistoric man. It's > been necessary since before the time of Socrates to reject the passions, the > emotions, in order to free the rational mind for an understanding of nature's > order which was as yet unknown. Now it's time to further an understanding of > nature's order by reassimilating those passions which were originally fled > from. The passions, the emotions, the affective domain of man's > consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. The central part." (ZAMM p. > 294) > > > Rah, rah. Three cheers for reading comprehension and textual evidence! > > > 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 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
