Re: LS CALL FOR VOTES - July 1999

From: Robert Stillwell (Stills@Bigfoot.com)
Date: Wed Jun 30 1999 - 06:00:06 BST


Have to go with.... #2.

> 1) [Denis Poisson]
> To further explore the Social and Intelectual Levels in terms of how
> they work and their composition. Also, if DNA is the "machine code"
> or interface between the inorganic and the biological levels, what form
> does the interface between the Biological and the Social levels take
> and similarly the interface between the Social and the Intellectual
> levels.
>
> 2) [Diana McPartlin & Robert Stillwell]
> Is there a soul or self? If so, how does it fit into the MOQ?
>
> 3) [Kevin Sanchez]
> How would Pirsig unite modernity and postmodernity. Chomsky
> advocates modernity claiming we need morality to legitimize our
> actions and justice is the highest ideal of society. Foucault
> advocates postmodernity claiming that despite our need of it,
> morality doesn't exists and that society defines its highest ideal as it
> wishes. It seems Pirsig can't appease the moderns because of his
> reliance on experience instead of logic and he can't appease the
> postmoderns because of his acceptance of a universal morality
> instead of particular morality.
>
> 4) Ken Clark
> As a continuing topic beginning in July take each chapter, in turn, of
> Lila that is not purely narrative and attempt to reach concensus on
> the meaning as a group. We could even begin with ZMM. We could
> either allot a month per chapter or maybe shorten it to two weeks if
> experience indicated this was enough.

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