Hi Ham, Hmmm, regardless of half empty/half full, static value is empty of inherent existence and cannot be found. How is that for a bottom line?
Marsha > On Sep 26, 2013, at 1:58 AM, "Hamilton Priday" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear Marsha -- > > Very early on Tuesday morning you responded as follows to a note from Andre: > > > Hey Andre, > > Here's what I've been considering lately. What do you think? > > RMP seems to have split Quality into Dynamic & static as a rhetorical device. > I understand the relationship between Dynamic Quality and static quality to > be like two aspects of the same process (Quality). Just like the process of > living is simultaneously occurring with the process of dying, so, too, DQ and > sq are occurring simultaneously. Or the same glass of water being half > empty and half full. > > Anyone? > > > I have a few thoughts on the subject of Quality which, as you know, I prefer > to call Value. This preference can be explained by the water glass metaphor > you refer to. > The meaning of this trope is not that there is "less or more" water in the > glass but, rather, how much you "thirst for" (i.e., value) its contents. > Thus, if you happen to be sitting at a dining table on which sits a pitcher > of water and glasses for your guests, you are likely to perceive a > partially-filled glass as "half empty." But if you are dying of thirst in a > desert, there's a good chance you'll spot that same glass as "half full". > > I understand experience as a 'process', but not quaiity. I believe it is > human nature to interpret all experience in valuistic terms. When we value > something, we're not passing judgment on some intrinsic 'quality' of that > thing; we’re sensing its value relative to our self. An object or event > which arouses our desire has more value than something that we don't want or > that is of little interest to us. > > This is what Protagoras meant by the maxim "Man is the measure of all > things." And I believe "static quality" was Pirsig's metaphor for > experiential (relative) > value as opposed to cosmic or absolute value which is beyond human experience. > > At least, that epistemology makes more sense to me than definitions of > "static" and "dynamic" quality as related to process. > > Good to chat with you again, Marsha. > > Essentially speaking, > Ham > > > Marsha > > > > > > > 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 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
