Hello all:
I am posting to this list for the first time, and
thought it would be appropriate to say hello.
My name is Douglas L. Hemmick. My website is www.intercom.net/~biedermn.
I have read philosophy informally for years, and studied Physics
formally with the completion of my doct in 96. (foundations of quantum).
(see my website www.intercom.net/~biedermn regarding qm foundations)
I am quite sold on Pirsig, with no reservations at all. Other authors who
strike me as being as good as gold are Arthur Koestler ("The Sleepwalkers: A
History of Cosmic Theories") and Paul Feyerabend ("Farewell to Reason").
I would assert that Feyerabend's notions of (value-based) cultural
relativity gives us the same viewpoint about culture as Pirsig puts forth in
Lila. The fact that these authors have convergenced is quite important, I
feel. The two might expand and inform one another...
Anyway, I hope you will not mind me adding another voice to your discussions
here.
Thanks,
Douglas L. Hemmick, Ph.D.
P.S. I know it may seem like sacriledge, but I encountered recently some
Aristotelean Physics of causality (formal and final cause), and also Rupert
Sheldrake's philosophy of evolution, and
these strike me as being quite akin to Pirsig's quality-seeking notions...
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