On May 17, 2013, at 9:44 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Socrates favoured _truth_ as the highest value, proposing that it could be > discovered through reason and logic in discussion: ergo, dialectic. Socrates > valued rationality (appealing to logic, not emotion) as the proper means for > persuasion, the discovery of truth, and the determinant for one's actions. To > Socrates, _truth_, not _aretē_, was the greater good, and each person should, > above all else, seek truth to guide one's life. -- Wiki "dialectics" > > > > dmb says: > Pirsig favors pragmatic truth as a species of value, asserting that they > (plural) are invented to serve human purposes. Pirsig values an expanded > rationality (appealing to logic and the affective domain) and the art of > rhetoric as the proper means of persuasion, excellence in thought and speech. > To Pirsig, truth, intellectual quality, is the highest of static values, and > is subordinate only to Dynamic Quality itself, which is what guides all > static values, including our pragmatic truths. RMP: "Truth is a (singular) static intellectual pattern within a larger entity called Quality. ... What Phaedrus saw was that the Metaphysics of Quality avoided this attack [of James] by making it clear that the good to which truth [singular] is subordinate is intellectual and Dynamic Quality" > > > > 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
