greetings. i'm rather new to this list, and i can't respond to everything
you're discussing since i feel like i arrived in medias res, but i had one
thought in response to Horse's post.
Horse, i suspect you are making sense. i wholly concur that the Good is not
indentical with what is moral, i.e. reality. all that is, right now, has
value
(you folks are using the word 'moral', but i prefer 'value', because anytime i
think of the word 'moral' i think of SOM-type morality - my own personal
prejudice). one might say that the world right now has a certain level of
value, though i'm opposed to trying to quantify it. through our actions, we
alter the structure of reality in some small way. 'creating' a building, for
example, is really not creation but rather a process of changing reality such
that it now has a different level of value. if the new reality is an
improvement, then the action was Good. if now, the opposite. hence there is
in fact a direction we're striving, as Pirsig claims; we're struggling to
reach
something higher - higher levels of value. the process of doing that is the
Good.
i have to think more about this, but that's all for now. btw, i noticed
there's another Jon(athan) on this list, so you can call me Laux if you want.
peace.
--- Jonathan R. Laux j-laux@uchicago.edu 773.834.6070"when the tao is present in the universe, the horses haul manure." -lao tsu
MOQ Online Homepage - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ Unsubscribe - http://www.moq.org/md/index.html MD Queries - horse@wasted.demon.nl
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sat Aug 17 2002 - 16:00:36 BST