From: Dan Glover (daneglover@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2004 - 18:16:27 BST
Hello Platt, all
>From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: Re: Re: MD The Individual Level
>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:13:38 -0400
>
>I see no contradictions in renaming the Intellectual Level the Individual
>Level. It's simply a proposal for a change for the better in the MOQ,
>something Pirsig encouraged.
In his Lila's Child annotations Robert Pirsig writes: "The word 'I' like the
word 'self' is one of the trickiest words in any metaphysics. Sometimes it
is an object, a human body; sometimes it is a subject, a human mind. I
believe there are a number of philosophic systems, notably Ayn Rand's
'Objectivism,' that call the 'I' or 'individual' the central reality.
Buddhists say it is an illusion. So do scientists. The MOQ says it is a
collection of static patterns cabable of apprehending Dynamic Quality. I
think that if you identify the 'I' with the intellect and nothing else you
are taking an uinusual position that may need some defending." (#130)
Dan
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