Struan says;
>On a similar note but less seriously, can anyone explain what function the word
>'dog' serves in the
>sentence 'It is a good dog?' If 'good' is the noun then what is 'dog?' Surely
>not another noun or
>the sentence makes no sense whatsoever.
Interesting how the OED (concise) entry for good is ten times as long as
the one for evil ! Also the first definition is:
Having the *right* ('Rta' again) *qualities*
Is not Pirsig making the point again that the observer considered
'goodness' (most definitely a noun) more important (of higher value)
than the 'dogness' ?
OED (concise) - goodness: .... what is good in thing, its essence or
strength; .....
Lithien said:
>this roger, is my Heart of Darkness. although, it doesnt answer the
>questions that i posed above that is why i keep asking them. to reject
>them because one cannot explain them is only avoidance. one may argue
>why the male is the destructive side, the answer to that is that the
>female definitely creates life and that cannot be argued. the only
>other place for the destructive principle by default is the male. but
>i may be wrong about that.
Remember that in the classic representation of the yin-yang ultimate
principle each polarity contains an element of the other.
Before the advent of cloning it was impossible to contemplate the
creation of life (other than asexually reproducing life anyway, and
whether or not you consider that there is life before birth) without a
female *and* a male element. An egg was not much good without a sperm.
Now as I understand it a perfect facsimile of a sheep requires only an
egg and genetic material which could come from either sex. Could the
'fixing' of the dynamic quality inherent in sexual reproduction into a
static genetic code carried forward generation after generation
represent the ultimate evil or could it offer a path by which a stable
biological pattern of values might more rapidly 'evolve' to a higher
intellectual plane ?
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