From: Valence (valence10@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun May 04 2003 - 17:47:27 BST
Hey Sam,
S
> I'm gratified that you think the essay is worth a whole 'review' ...
R
I put 'review' in quotes because I didn't want to oversell it. It's really
just a post where I briefly respond to your conception of the fourth level
(which I am happy to report that I am very fond of). I'm hoping to have it
out sometime in the next few weeks (my 'MoQ minutes' are still pretty few
and far between).
S
...but I'd quibble a little with
> something you said:
>
> : RICK
> : I think you're right. I don't think Pirsig's vision of the MoQ sees
humans
> : as the pinnacle of evolution (which is why he justifies human rights on
the
> : basis of the protection of more highly evolved 'ideas'.) To Pirsig, the
> : human being is just another link the evolutionary chain. Sam's recent
> : 'Eudiamonic MoQ' essay presents a conception of the MoQ which does make
> : human individuals the crowning acheivement of evolution.
>
> I think autonomous individuals do stand at the top of the evolutionary
tree (in precisely the same
> way that Pirsig thinks 'intellect' stands at the top) but I don't think
that evolution has come to
> an end, so 'crowning achievement' is misleading. Who knows what will come
next?
R
Sorry. Didn't mean to misrepresent your thoughts. I probably should have
said something like: the 'current' crowning achievement of evolution.
take care
rick
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