dmb, here is an additional few quotes I also find interesting:
"... Spoken language is dynamic, and dictionaries can only track the changing
meanings of word from one edition to the next. Old words are adapted to new
needs, and new words are constantly being borrowed or coined. ..."
(Doorly, Patrick, ‘The Truth About Art: Reclaiming Quality’, p. 30)
“… By _discussing_ Quality, rather than simply practicing it, Socrates sought
to pin down with words a preverbal experience. Subsequent Western philosophers
followed the founders of their discipline by pursuing knowledge with language,
which can no more grasp Quality than it can grasp the deliciousness of a ripe
pear. A cultural ideal is exclusive, and neither Socrates nor Plato rallied
that by making verbal knowledge the goal of philosophy, excellence or ‘the
Good’ --- the value they most cared about --- would be displaced as the goal of
human conduct.”
(Doorly, Patrick, ‘The Truth About Art: Reclaiming Quality’, p. 3)
On Aug 19, 2013, at 11:34 AM, david buchanan wrote:
> Marsha said:
> I won't bore you by presenting a bunch of quotes. I'd just like to state
> that Patrick Doorly's book is chocked full of Quality insights. It is
> wonderful to see Mr. Pirsig and the MoQ and art presented with such
> seriousness. Better explanations! I find so many paragraphs inspire
> further reflection. Bravo!
>
>
>
> dmb says:
> Yes, Doorly certainly knows what he's talking about.
>
> "Indeed we could characterize 'Being' as the ability to respond to the good
> or bad, that is to Quality. In his second book, Lila, An Inquiry into Morals
> (1991), Pirsig considered what a rational intellectual framework might look
> like, if Quality is accepted as the primary reality. The metaphysics of
> Quality (MOQ) he constructed to that end completes the project he began in
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. By restoring the Good to
> philosophical primacy, he also repaired the damage wrought when Plato allowed
> knowledge to contain it." -- (Patrick Doorly in The Truth About Art:
> Reclaiming Quality, page 128)
>
> I think that pretty well sums up what Paul was saying in his recent essay.
>
>
>
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