Ant McWatt (ant11@liverpool.ac.uk)
Mon, 16 Mar 1998 17:37:19 +0100
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998 17:05:30 +0000 (GMT) Ant McWatt
<ant11@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
> Donny,
>
> You also mention "Process Philosophy" in an earlier
> e-mail...
>
> > Something else that might interest you is "Process
> > Philosophy." I don't know much about it (maybe Anthony
> > might?), but the bottom line is that what really exists
> > is not a thing but a process, the universe is
> > flux, a movement (presumably towards something). I
> > believe Alfred North Whitehead is the big guy in this
> > camp (this -ism).
I`m telling Ken to wake-up and maybe I should myself. The
ONLY post-graduate dissertation I`ve heard about (if anyone
else has heard of others please tell me) that deals with
LILA (as opposed to ZMM) is one comparing Whitehead with
Pirsig. Donny, the details are as follows:
Order No: AAC MM06967 ProQuest - Dissertation Abstracts
Title: A PROCESS ANALYSIS OF QUALITY: A. N.
WHITEHEAD AND R.PIRSIG ON EXISTENCE AND VALUE
(ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD,ROBERT PIRSIG)
Author: SNEDDON, ANDREW GEORGE
School: THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK (CANADA) (0823)
Degree: MA Date: 1995 pp: 209
Advisor: MACDONALD, R. C.
Source: MAI 34/04, p. 1391, Aug 1996
Subject: PHILOSOPHY (0422)
ISBN: 0-612-06967-2
Abstract: This thesis is divided into two portions. Part One is a
sympathetic exploration of the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead
and Robert Pirsig, with special emphasis on theories of value. The
basic outlines of the Metaphysics of Process and the Metaphysics of
Quality are presented in the first two chapters respectively. The
third chapter is an examination of points of fundamental agreement
and difference between the two systems. Chapter IV consists in the
presentation of specific arguments criticizing traditional
philosophico-scientific thought.
Part Two is this writer's attempt at synthesizing a meaning of
'value/quality' and a new value theory from the works of Pirsig and
Whitehead. The resultant system pays special attention to the
balancing of tension between intensity of experience within
individual value contexts and communal diversity of content of
experience. Aesthetics is treated as an examination of the texture of
individual experience; art is seen as deepening the harmonies and
contrasts within a participant's value context. Ethics concerns the
relations between contexts. Individuals are responsible firstly for
their own intensity of experience; 'respect' characterizes
inter-contextual relations. The thesis concludes with a brief look at
Constructive Postmodern Philosophy.
This dissertation will probably answer most of your
queries concerning Whitehead and Pirsig and you should be
able to order a copy of this (even if only in microfiche)
from your University.
Best Wishes,
Anthony.
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