At 06:36 PM 3/19/2007, you wrote: >[Marsha] >In a monistic metaphysics there is only one substance. Once broken down into >the many (SQ), your explanations makes sense. But there is no such division >within Quality or DQ. > >[Arlo] >Quality *is* divided into static and Dynamic in Pirsig's metaphysics. >Quality/Value/Betterness is primary. It exists before the SQ/DQ split. What we >see as static patterns are the result of this immediate, primary >Quality. Value >is not secondary. It is the first thing. > >When Pirsig refers to "Dynamic Quality" as "Dynamic morality" this >is just what >he meant. When he writes of the brujo he is clear that DQ is Value/Betterness, >"He was just following some vague sense of "betterness" that he couldn't have >defined if he had wanted to." > >"When inorganic patterns of reality create life the Metaphysics of Quality >postulates that they've done so because it's "better" and that this definition >of "betterness" -this beginning response to Dynamic Quality-is an elementary >unit of ethics upon which all right and wrong can be based." (LILA) > >You can disagree with Pirsig, and as such I don't think I can (or want to) try >to change your mind.
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