Hey DMB,
I would agree SOM failed to "solve" the "problem" of Enlightenment.
I wouldn't say MOQ "solved" the "problem" because "solving" is part of the
part of the problem. But I would agree that MOQ has "solved" the problem of
"solving" in the sense that it showed Enlightenment is a mystery to be
experienced rather then a problem to be solved.
Erin
>Dear Pirsigians:
>
>Somebody claimed that postmodernism and/or deconstructionism is a reaction
>to the failure of the Enlightment. I don't doubt it. Lots of things are a
>response to that same problem. The MOQ is an attempt to correct that
>failure. Pirsig argues that this failure has resulted in a metaphysics of
>substance, which is otherwise known as SOM. He also points at the same
>mistake in refering to amoral scientific objectivity. The same thing might
>be called godless materialism by religious conservatives. All reactionary
>movements are a response to an intellectual system that has failed to
>include social level values. They're reacting to the death of god. In the
>intellectual level's attempt to assert itself over social level values it
>has ignored and destroyed them. This is the failure of the enlightenment.
>This is what the MOQ attempts to fix.
>
>DMB
>
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