Quoting Dan Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Platt: > >Disagree. For the MOQ morality extends beyond how to get along with your > >neighbors. It is the whole thing, from patterns of particles to patterns of > >people and beyond. Reality -- all of it -- is morality. Pirsig has > >redefined > >the term. > > Dan: > What is the redefinition of morality? If you say it means everything, all of > reality, morality doesn't mean anything. I thought Mr. Pirsig used terms > like quality and morality on account of our being familar with them. At > least that is what he said.
Well, he said everyone knows what quality is although no one can define it. Morality as generally defined refers to how people interact with one another at the social level, i.e., "Love thy neighbor as thyself." But, Pirsig's view of morality is that "Some things are better than others." So yes, at the social level it's better to exchange values than to rob another for what you need whereas at the biological level its better to grab what you want while you can. At the intellectual level it's better (more moral)to be logical than not, and at the inorganic level it's better to behave predictably unless you are a quantum particle. So perhaps you can think of Pirisg's morality as having extended the usual meaning to realms heretofore considered morally neutral. That's how I see it, but others may express it differently ... or better. :-) Regards, Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
