Hi Rasheed, Platt
Rasheed:
My perception of the 'code of art' was wrong, thanks for clearing it up.
However, because t is in fact a fourth Dynamic morality, doesnt that in
itself point to a fifth level?
Marco:
Who knows? The only important thing is that, fifth or not fifth, we still have to elevate the fourth...
Platt:
You say emotions are biological. Your cat
purrs and is happy. Later you speak of a *sense of beauty.* Is the
sense of beauty an emotion? If so, how come your cat doesn't respond
to art? Do humans have biologically-based emotions that cat's don't? If
so, wouldn't that mess up Pirsig's separate levels?
Marco:
Another thing I've noticed is that my cat *prefers* to sleep on clean dresses, and on my bed when it's well arranged. Otherwise, if the bed is all messed up, she uses to sleep on an old chair. In the past, another cat had different fondnesses. I'd not point to that exactly as an appreciation of *the art of bed arranging*, just I think that many mammals sometimes seem to demonstrate a primitive sense of beauty. As well as they demonstrate a primitive capacity (from our viewpoint) of thought.
What the sense of beauty *is*, it's a difficult question. Surely, beauty has the capacity to generate emotions; so, maybe, when we follow beauty we are also searching for emotions. By means of art, this search becomes active and not passive: it's an attempt to investigate and dominate and communicate certain aspects of reality (let's not forget that emotions are perfectly real).
The fact that cats can't respond to art is not different from the fact that cats are not intersted to science. Anyway, despite of their great capacity of falling on their legs, they are angry when gravity make them fall down from the third floor......
meow!
Marco
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