Re: MF CALL FOR TOPICS

From: Richard Budd (rmb007Q1@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri May 26 2000 - 22:36:41 BST


Hey all,

My suggestion:
At the end of Lila Pirsig leaves us with this "summation":

"Good is a noun. That was it. That was what Phaedrus had been looking for.
That was the homer, over the fence, that ended the ball game. Good as a
noun rather than an adjective is all the Metaphysics of Quality is about....
....if you had to reduce the whole Metaphysics of Quality to a single
sentance, that would be it."

A bold claim. But without having read the rest of the book (and maybe even
having read it) that sentance is (to say the least) cryptic. I think of a
snipet from ZMM--- "....when the statement is isolated and itself subject to
scrutiny it becomes patently ridiculous."

Anybody care to explore exactly what "Good is a noun" means and whether it
really captures the entire MoQ?

It's all Good (by the way),
Rick

MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org



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