Marsha said:
Yes, it is good to be reminded of these two quotes again...
dmb says:
Isn't it true that you subscribe to Bo's view on SOM, the view that Pirsig is
so nicely smacking down in these quotes? Isn't a bit hypocritical to remind
anyone but yourself?
"It employs SOM reasoning the way SOM reasoning employs social structures such
as courts and journals and learned societies to make itself known. SOM
reasoning is not subordinate to these social structures, and the MOQ is not
subordinate to the SOM structures it employs. Remember that the central reality
of the MOQ is not an object or a subject or anything else. It is understood by
direct experience only and not by reasoning of any kind. Therefore to say that
the MOQ is based on SOM reasoning is as useful as saying that the Ten
Commandments are based on SOM reasoning. It doesn't tell us anything about the
essence of the Ten Commandments and it doesn't tell us anything about the
essence of the MOQ." (RMP, 'LILA's Child', Annotation 132)
"The MOQ is in opposition to subject-object metaphysics. To say that it is a
part of that system which it opposes sounds like a dismissal. I have read that
the MOQ is the same as Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Hegel, James, Pierce,
Nieztsche, Bergson, and many others even though these people are not held to be
saying the same as each other. This kind of comparison is what I have meant by
the term, "philosophology." It is done by people who are not seeking to
understand what is written but only to classify it so that they don't have to
see it as any thing new. God knows, the MOQ has never had two better friends
than Bo and Platt, so this is no criticism of their otherwise brilliant
thinking. It's just that I see a lowering of the quality of the MOQ itself if
you follow this path of subordinating it to that which it opposes." (RMP,
'LILA's Child', Annotation 133)
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