Might I suggest that Pirsig selected "Quality" rather than "Good" to avoid
confusion with Plato's "Good". In ZAMM the narrator tells us at some point
that even he had trouble seeing the differences between Phaedrus's Quality
and Plato's Good (at first). I think RMP was just trying to help some
others avoid this same association.
Rick
> "I've always wondered why Pirsig got so fixated on the word "Quality."
Instead
> of plain "Good." To me, Good and Quality is the same thing. But Pirsig
chose
> to call it the Metaphysics of Quality rather than the Metaphysics of Good.
>
> I believe Pirsig considers "Good" and "Quality" to be identical, but chose
> the word Quality because it all started with that comment a fellow teacher
> made to him. "Are you teaching your students Quality?" Yes, they are the
same
> thing. And Lila ends with Good. Good is a noun."
>
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