Ham, to simplify things for my tiny skull, I've used the Tao te ching as a model metaphor is this how essentialim works? The Tao(PRIMARY REALITY) begot one.(AWARENESS) One begot two.(DOUBLE NEGATION) Two begot three.(QUALITY) And three begot the ten thousand things. The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of the ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one sees the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. - the tao te ching But Pirsig asserts that "value" pervades all reality and is therefore Primary before reality(objective matter) itself, and arranges itself accordingly . so that the tao reads as: The Tao(DQ) begot one.(SQ) One begot two.(AWARENESS) Two begot three.(S/O)(I NOT I)(DOUBLE NEGATION) And three begot the ten thousand things. The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of the ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one sees the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. - the tao te ching using this as a reference point, am I even close to understanding Essentialism? thanks, I'm very interested in getting this right. _[x] 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
