Dear foci,
As I understood Pirsig's MoQ Dynamic Quality creates both subjects &
objects AND static patterns of value (static quality). Subject/object
therefore splits only the "group of phenomena" that consists of static
patterns of value and neither subjects nor objects have a "Dynamic
part". The dividing line between subjects and objects is the same as
the dividing line between inorganic and biological patterns of value
on the one hand and social and intellectual patterns of value on the
other hand.
See figure 4 on page 13 of Pirsig's "Subjects, Objects, Data and
Values" (www.moq.org/forum/emmpaper.html).
The subject/object-split is not denied per se by Pirsig's MoQ, but it
is denied as a first split of experiential reality.
I would want to add to Pirsig's MoQ that the dividing line between
subject (me) and objects depends on which static patterns of value I
identify with. Other subjects than I are really objects to me. I can
objectify myself, split myself in an object and a subject and
recognise the object as comparable to other objects that I therefore
also call "subjects".
With friendly greetings,
Wim Nusselder
MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
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