Hello Platt,
> Quality beyond good and evil? Beyond truth and falsity? That's what
> tripped me up. In many places, Pirsig makes it clear that Quality, reality,
> morality, experience and good are synonymous.
...
> "Dynamic good and static good, which became the basic division of his
> emerging Metaphysics of Quality." (9)
...
> "It adds that this good is not a social code or some intellectualized
> Hegelian Absolute. It is direct everyday experience." (29)
...
> So it is a mistake to separate goodness and truth from Quality. Both
> are part and parcel of Quality/reality, not something grafted on as a
> social or intellectual afterthought. They are integral to pure experience.
Yes, you are quite correct.
I was not clear enough in my waffling, and let the Nietzchean metaphor run
away with itself without explanation.
It's just that "beyond good and evil, and truth and falsity" is more
rhetorically exciting to me than to say, "more dynamic/primal than static
social and intellectual patterns," if you get my drift.
Mea culpa.
- Oisín
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