From: Paul Turner (paul@turnerbc.co.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 14 2005 - 10:49:46 GMT
Arlo,
>I appreciate your comments, and sharing those of Pirsig. The only thing I'd
>comment further on is that when I use Quality, I generally refer to the ZMM
>"undifferentiated" Quality.
Paul: Which I argue corresponds to Dynamic Quality in LILA. I'm trying to
harmonise the two books which is partly what my 'two theses' post is about.
Try substituting the term in ZMM and, although I haven't done it all the way
through, I don't think it'll change much, if anything at all.
I am hesitant to replace that use with any
>division ("either 'Dynamic Quality', 'static quality' or 'static and
>Dynamic Quality'", as you (and even Pirsig) suggest), simply because in my
>reading, the static-Dynamic split is one possible way (perhaps the best way
>to date) to get at Quality, but not the ONLY way. And I'm concerned that
>dropping "Quality" in favor of the others suggests an absoluteness to this
>division that I am not reading to make. And, it may further reify the terms
>"static" and "Dynamic" split as something more than a brilliant and useful
>analogy. Or maybe better said, it focuses attention on the analytic knife,
>and not the patient.
Paul: As Pirsig says, one cannot have a metaphysics which consists of just
one word. The Dynamic-static division is the starting point of the
intellectual structure of the MOQ presented in LILA which is what I am
referring to when I say that the term 'Quality' alone could be avoided. As
to the reification of the division I don't see why my suggestion leads to
that. If someone wanted to try a different division then they should of
course go ahead and do it but it wouldn't be what we currently refer to as
the MOQ. I suppose an MOQ based on a new division would create the "S/D
MOQ" in its wake.
Regards
Paul
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