Dear Rog,
First, a little background on myself. I've been a Taoist for 32 years, &
the teachings posit that we only have the concept 'left' because we have
the concept 'right'. Same for up & down, in & out, yin & yang, and
positive & negative. Pirsig concentrates on quality as a positive
absolute, whereas to a Taoist all is relative & there are no absolutes.
The blow dealt the MOQ is that from a Taoist perspective, there are a
multitude of relative qualities that play havoc with the MOQ. Examples: a
poor quality dish in a high quality restaurant is mixed quality; quality
is subject to entropy thus there is diminishing quality; quality cannot
be held on to, thus we have slippery quality. It's all semantics
actually.
Just let go,
Jeff
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:02:19 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Jeff,
>
> OK, I am intrigued. What blow does "negative" quality give to the
> MOQ? And
> while we are at it, is there even such a thing as "negative"
> quality, or just
> an absence-of-quality?
>
> Rog
>
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