Dave,
You wrote:
"...we have to understand that Pirsig is proposing a
shift away from the dominant Western "thing" based metaphysics towards a
more "process" based metaphysics."
and then explained what a "process based metaphysics" is with this quote...
"From the time of Aristotle, western metaphysics has had a marked bias
in favour of things or substances. However, another variant line of
thought was also current from the earliest time onward. After all
concentrating on perduring physical things as existents in nature
slights the equally good claims of another ontological category, namely
processes, events, occurances- items better named by verbs than nouns.
And, clearly, storms and heat waves are every bit as real as dogs and
oranges."
RICK:
I just thought it might be worth pointing out that Pirsig makes it quite
explicit in the last paragraph of LILA that "Good is a noun".... Not a
verb... Good is a verb? What could that mean? Of course, he also refers
often to a "Quality Event"... (which makes the "Good is a noun" thing kind
of pointless since all "events" are nouns) ...what do you think would be the
"verb" of a Quality Event???
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also...
DAVE:
"According to his critics, anyone who even considers the possiblity that
his claim might be worth exploring is a mindless twit with a propensity
for urinating on his shoes."
RICK:
This is your response to the numerous formidable and well thought out
criticisms of the MoQ? Hmm.
nuff said,
Rick
MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
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