From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 17:50:05 BST
Hi Peter,
What we are discussing are the descriptions of the static levels, not
dynamic quality itself. As such it is susceptible to analysis and
definition. (And Pirsig himself outlines a way of understanding the
individual as the creation of many different patterns of value). Of course
there are ways to 'deconstruct' the notion of an individual and to deny the
possibility of it having boundaries; however, I don't have a great deal of
sympathy with their final conclusions. To tie in with the other thread here,
it is the individual that judges and discriminates, and is therefore able to
discern Quality (to make the 'moral judgements' that Platt has just referred
to); it is therefore the individual that is the vehicle of evolution, as in
Wim's definition: "a process by which weak Dynamic forces at an individual
level discover stratagems for overcoming huge static social forces at a
collective level."
Sam
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