dmb said to Marsha:
...That's just a fraction of the things Pirsig has said about intellect. One of his central aims, if not the most important one of all, is a root expansion of rationality. By equating his conception of intellectual quality with SOM, you have certainly missed the point of his work in a very big way. Marsha replied: No more than you missing the point of my post. I appreciate that you have a favored way of interpreting the MoQ, but there should be no need for others to be constrained by your perspective. There's this: "Unlike subject-object metaphysics the Metaphysics of Quality does not insist on a single exclusive truth."...Your perspective, assertions and opinions are not to be taken as Scripture. And this: "Static quality patterns are dead when they are exclusive, when they demand blind obedience and suppress Dynamic change. But static patterns, nevertheless, provide a necessary stabilizing force to protect Dynamic progress from degeneration. Although Dynamic Quality, the Quality of freedom, creates this world in which we live, these patterns of static quality, the quality of order, preserve our world. Neither static nor Dynamic Quality can survive without the other." Marsha: While I agree with this entire paragraph, I ask you to consider carefully the first sentence. Your perspective, assertions and opinions are not to be taken as Scripture. 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
