Hettinger (hettingr@iglou.com)
Sat, 1 Nov 1997 12:02:56 +0100
I'd like to nominate a starting point for the FAQ.
>From Doug's October 21 letter (Re: LS Re: Intelligence vs Intellect):
<snip>
> Quality has two divisions: Static and Dynamic. All of us should know
> the purpose and examples of evidence for each. This is pure MoQ -- our
> (TLS) Metaphysics of Quality (The Reality of Quality).
>
> DQ is ubiquitous and universal and not definable by finite intellect in
> any context, PERIOD!
<snip>
> MoQ gives us four SPoVs and five codes of morality thus:
>
> SPoVs from the bottom rung of the ladder, up:
>
> SPoV1 - Inorganic
> SPoV2 - Biological
> SPoV3 - Social
> SPoV4 - Intellectual
>
> Five codes of morality bottom-up, quoting Pirsig on page 345 of the
> Bantum paperback:
>
> "The Metaphysics of Quality says there are not just two codes of morals,
> there are actually five:
>
> Code1 - inorganic-chaotic,
> Code2 - biological-inorganic,
> Code3 - social-biological,
> Code4 - intellectual-social, and
> Code5 - Dynamic-static.
>
> "This last, the Dynamic-static code, says what's good in life isn't
> defined by society or intellect or biology. What's good is freedom from
> domination by any static pattern, but that freedom doesn't have to be
> obtained by the destruction of the patterns themselves."
>
> Finally, we have Bodvar's imperative element of the MoQ: The Quality
> Event. Without this, nothing works.
>
> To review: MoQ, two divisions of quality, DQ undefinable, static
> quality has four divisions and five codes of morality, and Bo's QEs.
> Pirsig also discusses analogues: subject-object-Quality (SOQ) and
> subject-object-value (sVo).
>
> That to me is our MoQ context! That is what we have to work with.
>
<snip>
Doug was writing to us. What would we change to communicate this with
others?
Maggie
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