> In the MOQ, the moral authority isn't an external figure, a supreme deity,
> a social code or some "Hegelian absolute. It is direct everyday
> experience."
>
> I concur with Pirsig completely. The moral authority is the experience
> created by one's actions. Or in other words, the measure of morality is in
> the consequences.
PLATT:
Yes, but. How do you judge the consequences? On what basis do you
say a consequence is good or bad, better or worse?
ROG:
As my boss once said to me at work when I asked this same question "What is
good, Phaedrus, and what is not good -- need we ask anyone to tell us these
things?" (pretty cool having a boss that reads Pirsig, huh?)
Quality is experience. If you can experience deficiencies in the current
situation, then there is greater good to be created. Like Pirsig, I totally
reject the notion of an idealistic moral goodness that is floating off in
some higher Platonic realm. Quality is experience, and in living, we
experience higher and lower quality. The key is for each of us to learn how
to maximize the goodness of experience, and to extend the experience of
quality out further and farther, over a wider circle and across a greater
range of time and predicaments. Life is thus an inquiry.
Or to paraphrase another quote from Pirsig, the goodness of an experience is
in the harmony which it produces.
Rog
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