LS Re: PROGRAM Basics of the MoQ


Murdock, Mark (Mark.Murdock@Unisys.Com)
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:50:25 +0100


> What is Quality?
> It's 'now,' the pre-intellectual cutting edge of experience.
> It is also goodness and truth. The sanskrit word for
> goodness/truth is 'arete.'
> Martin,
>
> I feel it's important to maintain a distinction between Good and True
> lest they become muddled into the same concept (allowing Quality to be
> carved up by the dialections). We feel the Good, we know the true.
> Our culture usurps feelings for knowledge. This is against the nature
> of reality. I believe Pirsig combined the Good and Right when
> speaking of arete, not Good and True.
>
> (1) I make a distinction between experience and knowledge.
> Experience is the pre-intellectual awareness of values,
> knowledge is the post-intellectual construction.
Yes, percepts THEN concepts. Another fundamental beachhead.

Excellent! And much Good to you!

M.

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