Samuel Palmer (spalmer@fundy.ca)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 07:46:29 +0100
> The Metaphysics of Quality
> 2. The MoQ is the intellectual path to enlightenment. It is the nature
> of the intellect to define things. Thus the purpose of the MoQ is to
> define reality. The MoQ pursues the intellect so that the intellect may
> be transcended.
>
The importance of this last sentence may have been overlooked: "The
MOQ pursues the intellect...". In my opinion this resolves many
questions surrounding the MoQ.
> "The purpose of the MoQ is to define reality"
>
- Or re-define reality, in terms that are inclusive of all aspects of
human endeavor, that were formerly divided.
> "The MoQ is the intellectual path to enlightenment"
>
- Or the intellectual resolution of meta-intellectual quality
(enlightenment). The MoQ is something like a "static acknowledgement of
dynamic quality", to facilitate the expansion of intelect into a larger
scope.
A question to play with:
Pirsig is vague about where religious experience is placed within
the Inorganic-Biological-Social-Intellectual chain. Could he have been
suggesting, in an underhanded way, that Religion, or Religious
Experience, is what's next?
I bring this up because in ZMM, Pirsig speaks of his Quality in
terms of endearment that are comparable to all kinds of religious
experience.
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