Ant, On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Ant McWatt <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all!, > > Nice to be back! Anyway, I was thinking recently (after last month's MOQ > lecture at Liverpool University) that a definition of SOM might be "any > metaphysics that, implicitly or explicitly, DEFINES the Good". Any sensible > thoughts about this definition and how it might be improved will be > appreciated.
Dan: As you know, I recently purchased Patrick Doorly's The Truth About Art. Right away I was struck by several of his postulations the first of which is: "(He [Pirsig] used a capital Q to indicate the complete subject-object experience.)" [The Truth About Art, To the reader, page x] Dan : I could go on ad nauseum about why I think this is a terrible opening but your snippet: "any metaphysics that, implicitly or explicitly, DEFINES the Good" is an excellent reason. I am assuming Doorly used Quality with a capital Q in relation to ZMM while in Lila Dynamic Quality is that which must be kept concept-free, or the Good. In essence what Doorly appears to be doing is attempting to define Quality as nothing more than (a complete) subject-object experience.. Next we have: "In his second book Lila (1993), Pirsig divided the Good into a dynamic Quality, the thrill that made Archimedes sit up in his bath and shout, and a Static quality, the law of specific gravity, or whatever else may be salvaged from the dynamic event." [page xi] Dan comments: The term 'dynamic event' does not exist in Lila. The Quality event of ZMM is left behind. In addition, the term Dynamic Quality is consistently capitalized in Lila for a reason, or so I always thought, while static quality is not, again, for a reason. What Doorly appears to be doing is lumping both terms together under the umbrella of Quality, which in essence is correct, but the way he's approaching it ultimately leads to defining the Good. Anyway, I'll stop there to see what anyone thinks before and if proceeding further. It really is a great book, btw, though I do not happen to agree with some of Doorly's points, Thank you, Dan http://www.danglover.com 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
