From: Ascmjk@aol.com
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 21:49:48 GMT
In a message dated 2/26/2003 10:12:16 AM Central Standard Time,
mattstone_2000@yahoo.co.uk writes:
> Jon,
>
> >I believe what
> >Matt is saying is that both Pirsig and postmodernism
> >say that certain aspects
> >of reality are indefinable.
>
> What I'm saying goes beyond this - my view on Pirsig's
> application regarding postmodernism is that he deals
> with how to live, or moreover, how to think, within a
> world where indeterminacy has recently been shown to
> strike blows for the big universal concepts that have
> dominated our lives, and our thinking, up until the
> middle of the 20th century. You can deny that
> absolute morals exist (a simplistic example of
> postmodernity), but you can't deny that there exist
> certain patterns of value that favour certain moral
> configurations (Pirsig) - hence Pirsig helps forge a
> new 'thought' that allows one to cope better with
> indeterminacy than SOM.
>
Matt, I was simply trying to find a happy medium between your view and
Platt's total rejection of postmodernism (if this is not his view, I'm sure
he'll speak up). A little diplomacy never hurts. And I always end up going
back to the essential message of both ZMM *and* LILA: the indefinability of
Quality.
Jon
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