Hi,
In "The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution", P.D.Ouspensky gives this
description of man (simplified here):
There are seven types of humans.
Each human has each of these "centres" (men #5-7 have more):
Instinctive
Moving
Feeling (emotional)
Thinking (intellectual)
In "Up From Eden - a transpersonal view of human evolution", Ken Wilber
gives these levels of consciousness (and more):
Nature
Body
Early mind (mythical)
Advanced mind (rational)
In John Locke's "Essay", he discusses these "identities":
Matter (material substance)
Living Matter (vegetable, animal)
Conscious Living Matter (person)
In many works, Aristotle's four causes are given as:
Material (bronze)
Formal (Socrates)
Moving (the artist/sculpturer)
Teleological (final cause - the good, the "purpose")
(I haven't confirmed this - but according to my Ancient Philosophy
professor:)
Aristotle "invented" the term "Dynamos" to indicate "potentiality", the
opposite of "actuality".
Hmmmm...
The root of our word "static" is "stasis", also from the Greeks.
In the "Republic", Plato's "line" divides this way (many different
translations) (each epistemological level has a set of corresponding
metaphysical objects):
Images
Beliefs
Knowledge
Perfection (gnosis - of the Good)
In "Creative Evolution" by Henri Bergson, he gives a similar scheme... the
terms of which I've forgotten. Also - I've forgotten the name of the book
(it's on Morality) - he says that there are two types of morality, and also
religions:
Static and Dynamic
Anaximander (or Anaxagoras) was one of the first Greeks to suggest that man
evolved from animals.
In India, "the Great Chain of Being" has been recognized for many millenia,
and there are many schemes which correspond incredibly well with Pirsig,
except that they give levels (of consciousness = being) further on past the
intellectual. Read the "Bhagavad Gita" as translated and commented on by
Swami Vivekananda.
In this post, I propose that Pirsig's use of "Inorganic" to describe the
first level is not as good as "Physical". (especially for abbreviatory
purposes - IBSI vs. PBSI)
Are there other I-patterns of evolution corresponding (more or less) to
Pirsig's?
One more thing:
Static Patterns of Value are forever Dynamic. (impermanent, evolving)
Dynamic Quality is eternally static. (eternal, elusive)
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