Quoting Ron Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pirsig did'nt spell it out because it can not be spelled out and > isolated by level. > The levels function as a whole not individually thus they can not be > defined > absolutley only through their realionships with the other levels.
Pirsig spelled out the differences between the levels and their lack of relationship to one another to my satisfaction if not to yours: "What the evolutionary structure of the Metaphysics of Quality shows is that there is not just one moral system. There are many. In the Metaphysics of Quality there's the morality called the "laws of nature," by which inorganic patterns triumph over chaos; there is a morality called the Law of the jungle" where biology triumphs over the inorganic forces of starvation and death; there's a morality where social patterns triumph over biology, "the law"; and there is an intellectual morality, which is still struggling in its attempts to control society. Each of these sets of moral codes is no more related to the other than novels are to flip-flops. (Lila, 13) The key for me is Pirisg's claim that each level is a moral system. That, I submit, is an astonishing claim, especially in this day and age when morals are declared to be exclusively the province of man and are thus arbitrary. ------------------------------------------------- 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/
