From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 22:29:48 GMT
Matt said:
I have never wanted to discuss the question "How new is the MoQ?" I think
the question is pretty well answered by "Well, when were the books
written?"...Nobody's completely original. I think we have to own up to that
fact.
DMB says:
Like Ken Wilber's levels of consciousness, the MOQ's levels also reflect one
of the oldest and most universal idea. Actually it was already in human
culture before "ideas" existed. The ancient and universal, or perennial
philsophy, has long included this same notion; that there is a hierarchy of
being. The West's great chain of being leaps to mind as an example of a
pre-rational dipiction of the same. One can even see an inverted version of
it in Dante's Inferno. The chakra system dipicts it in the East. You get the
idea. So even though you "never wanted to discuss the question", parts of
the MOQ are as old as old can be, and comes from a time that predates
philosophy itself.
Smokey said:
.............................As for my carefully laid out, explicit thesis
statement, I don't have one yet. As I claimed in my previous post, I don't
have the necessary expertise, yet. While I explore the topic, whatever
thesis is there will organically arise from the material I'm studying. And
it probably won't be what I think it might be now, so I'd rather not blow a
lot of useless smoke, since people are already fairly hostile to my
particular brand of smoke.
DMB says:
May I suggest you skim through the two books and make a list of the
philosophers Pirsig mentions? This'll you give you the names that are most
likely to have influenced his thinking. It seems like a reasonable place to
start. This'd help you cast your net over the right fish. Its gotta beat
trolling through an entire century - or through 25 centuries.
Thanks.
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