Hello MD
I'm relatively new, so if my ideas sound rather strange, please excuse me.
To understand Dynamic Quality, I always looked back on Pirsig's example of playing a piece of music and finding beauty in it, then it slowly becoming less beautiful I thought to myself that the beauty must be the dynamic part of the song, because its presence is that which changes, while the notes of the song remain the same. Beauty must be an experience. And as this beauty wore off the song, I supposed that ugliness grew. Although the song was possessed by beauty, it must also have been possessed by ugliness, thus making it what we call "normal," or static. However, as you hear other songs, that beauty or that ugliness remains the very same as all the other times you say that something is beautiful or ugly. It appeared that only their amounts, possessed by a particular object, changed.
So I found myself in a bit of a dilemma If that experience of beauty remains the same, which I identified as Dynamic Quality (please correct me if I am mistaken,) doesn't that contradict its not deniable nature? I think it somewhat does, and somewhat doesn't. I do think that to find some sort of absolute truth of reality is completely impossible However, without such studies and aims, our world would cease to experience beauty and ugliness and all the other Dynamic goods and evils. We would become completely static, and probably non-existent.
Such statements as "If it feels good, do it," or "The truth is anything reasonable," although very debatable, are statements defining Dynamic Quality. "If it feels good, do it" is a statement defining what are good actions and what are not. And, in a sense, the same goes for the other example.
So I suppose what I am saying is that "Dynamic Quality is indefinable," should maybe say, "Dynamic Quality may be not definable to me and you in absolute terms, just like making a metaphysics is bound not to be absolutely correct. But this doesn't mean we shouldn't bother." My reasoning was almost similar to Platonic forms. I believe that the good, beauty, and other such forms are experienced, and they are dynamic. These forms are definable, and should be defined for the same reason we go around thinking about metaphysics.
Thank you for your time,
Ryan Conlon
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