Greetings
> 1.1 Pirsig shows that morality is a type of quality, but this does not
mean
> that the opposite is always true.
I would say that static quality is morality and vice versa. In my opinion SQ
are the things that is decided on, any decision has to do with good versus
bad, with morality.
> 1.2 Pirsig has proven that quality is real. However, that quality is
reality
> itself has been left almost totally unsupported.
There may be more out there but the part of reality we can possibly percieve
is quality. Something without quality can't be handled by our minds - for it
has no distinguises.
> 1.3 Pirsig has previously made it quite clear that patterns of static
> quality can all be placed within the four levels of the MoQ, but he also
> says that morality operates between the levels. Thus morality seems to be
> quite different from patterns of quality and it's a contradiction to say
> that quality and morality are the same thing.
The levels consist of morals and patterns of morals that are consistent and
hardly changable. Between the levels I think there is still room for
morality in the sense of human decision. It is morality that defines the
levels, that seperates them but also binds them. Patterns acros two or more
levels are not inherent consistent - they are due to agreement.
> 1.4 For a conception to exist there has to be a counterconcept (ie, for
> there to be Good there must also be "not Good", for there to be moral,
there
> has to be immoral), but there are no counterconcepts to
> Quality/Morality/Reality
Of course not: the MOQ is monotheistic - with the introduction of a devil
there is no longer monotheisme. After the monotheistic One (i.e. Quality)
there is the dualistic split in DQ and SQ or evolution vs devolution or ...
. If Q had a counterconcept Pirsig's identification of Q with entities as
'Good', 'God', 'Boedha' or 'Manitou' had no ground at all.
Thanks for trying to understand my twisted arguments,
Jaap
MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
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