Hugo Fjelsted Alroe (alroe@vip.cybercity.dk)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 13:39:09 +0100
Further on the 'What is intellectual quality' question
Diana, I can follow the distinction between a rationalistic worldview, and
one which acknowledges the limits of reason. And in my view this
distinction is identical to the distinction between determinism and
indeterminism. I am just not sure that this distinction falls between SOM
and MoQ, some SOM thinking might be indeterministic without letting go of
the structure of subjects and objects. But then again, you might be right,
that any indeterministic worldview is necessarily MoQ-like - I just dont
know.
But I do think it is confusing to say that MoQ is BASED on subject-object
thinking. I take subject-object thinking to be a specific metaphysical
foundation, that is, a specific way of structuring our world. It is behind
most everything in western philosophy and western worldviews, though this
common metaphysical ground was not realized before Pirsig saw it (as far as
I know).
I agree that MoQ is based on *categorical* thinking, and I guess that any
rational structuring of reality is necessarily categorical - Pirsigs
struggle with changing the rational categorical structure of the world I
found most fascinating, because I in some small way had struggled with that
myself.
In summary, I see SOM and MoQ as two different categorical structurings of
reality, in this respect they are similar and rational. Acknowleding the
limits of rationality has to do with indeterminism and evolutionism, in my
view, and I am not yet confident how exactly this relates to SOM versus MoQ.
Regards
Hugo
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