At 04:08 PM 3/10/2007, Platt wrote:
>Quoting MarshaV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> > I should have left things at the above
> > statement. It's not called the Metaphysics of
> > Betterness, "betterness" is just a very confusing
> > term. The way I read the quotes that you sited
> > were that "betterness" is the movement towards
> > Dynamic Quality that will provide for getting
> > unstuck. The "betterness" is the
> > unstuckness. But, Dynamic Quality is still
> > amoral in my book, not good, not bad, not
> > betterness, not any definition. And if good is a
> > noun (a static pattern of value), so is bad a
> > noun. Only a hand-written explanation from
> > Pirsig, himself, will convince me otherwise.
>
>Hand written by Pirsig himself in Chap. 7 of Lila:
>
>"Because Quality is morality. Make no mistake about it. They're identical.
>And if Quality is the primary reality of the world then that means morality
>is also the primary reality of the world. The world is primarily a
>moral order."
>
>Arlo is right. DQ is about "betterness."
Greetings Platt,
You cannot define as moral that which cannot be defined. According
to Pirsig, Dynamic Quality cannot be defined.
Marsha
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