From: Erin Noonan (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 18:53:43 BST
PLATT: Surely you realize that to judge others
>is to be human. As Pirsig writes in Lila:
>"Lila is a judge. That's who lay here beside him tonight: a judge of
>hundreds of millions of years standing, and in the eyes of this judge he
>was nobody very important Almost anyone would do, and most would
>do better than he."
ERIN:
I think that part with the doll is Phaedrus FINALLY seeing the mirror image of
LILA within himself and not some enemy mirror.
He says something about a new branch of his personality.
So Lila **was** a judge before he finally recognized she had quality also.
PLATT: "The Metaphysics of Quality says that if moral judgments are
>essentially assertions of value and if value is the fundamental ground-
>stuff of the world, then moral judgments are the fundamental ground-stuff
>of the world."
>
>If you're opposed to making judgments, I wonder why you bother with
>this site which is devoted to a metaphysics of judging. Where have I
>gone wrong in interpreting your statements?
ERIN: Darrell already told you about judging people vs behaviors.
I don't think his argument eliminates all moral judgments, just provides
a better framework to make moral judgements.
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