Hi Rick, Erin:
I wonder what you guys have to say about the following quote from LILA:
"But what's not so obvious is that, given a value-centered Metaphysics
of Quality, it is absolutely, scientifically moral for a doctor to prefer the
patient. This is not just an arbitrary social convention that should apply
to some doctors but not to all doctors, or to some cultures but not all
cultures. It's true for all people at all times, now and forever, a moral
pattern of reality as real as H20. We're at last dealing with morals on
the basis of reason."
Is this truth absolute? Or does "all people at all times, now and forever"
mean "some people, sometimes, maybe"?
Is this another case where Pirsig misspoke himself? Or, having
admitted to this exception, negates the claim that the MOQ does not
insist on a single exclusive truth?
Platt
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