From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 15:53:19 BST
Hi Sam,
To msh you wrote:
> I'd like to pursue you on the first paragraph, though, and ask for an
> explanation of how and why the MoQ values individuals 'as such', in other
> words, as Pirsig argues, there is clearly an 'instrumental' value in human
> beings as sources of ideas etc, but as far as I can tell the MoQ has no
> place for valuing the individual as an individual, as an end in him- or
> her-self. But I could be wrong.
Pirsig's theme in Lila, "Does Lila have Quality?" belies the notion that
he places little value on the individual as an individual. In fact, I've
argued that the intellectual level should rightly be called the Individual
Level as only individuals are capable of intellectual processes.
(Societies don't think.) The contradiction I see, however, is Pirsig's
apparent "faith" in the unreality of "self," based I presume on Buddhist
faith in One Self in spite of our "experience" or observational evidence
that we each are born and die separately. I sure don't perceive I inhabit
someone else's skin :-)
Best,
Platt
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