Re: MD Sophocles not Socrates

From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 10:21:51 BST


Hi David,

You wrote: "The word Pirsig chose for the 4th level is "intellectual" and
calling it anything else will only cause confusion among the participants
and disortion of the MOQ."

Clearly I disagree with Pirsig's nomenclature in this respect (subject to
where I get to with my response to Scott R's question). That disagreement is
based, however, on a profound agreement with, using your words, "4L + DQ =
One", ie the MoQ as a whole. What I am trying to do, in my clumsy and inept
fashion no doubt, is make a small incremental advance in our understanding
of the MoQ. I thought that was what we were here for. You disagree - my
proposal would result in 'distortion of the MoQ'.

I have a question for you: where do you draw the line? I make the (possibly
charitable) assumption that you don't see Pirsig as inerrant or infallible;
at what point, then, does disagreement with Pirsig result in 'distortion of
the MoQ'? Even more important, who is to judge?

Sam
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