Hi everyone
Didn't get any email for a couple of days and now there's no way I'm
ever going to catch up.
So, as for
> NEXT MONTH'S TOPIC?
The suggestions I've garnered so far are:
> First, I feel we could gain immensely by comparing and contrasting MOQ to
> other metaphysics, or to belief systems which take the metaphysical approach
> of rejecting metaphysics. For example , could our philosophical members share
> with us key similarities or distinctions between MOQ and empiricism, idealism,
> pragmatism, neorealism, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, phenomalism, and phenomenology.
> Where do we share assumptions? How does MOQ resolve their platypi? What
> challenges do they provide to the MOQ?
This is fine but seeing as we don't all agree on what the MoQ is it
seems difficult.
> Second, Bodvar, Lithien and Jay have been discussing an interesting
> thread.Below is what Bodvar wrote to Jay on the issue of Advocacy:
> <<<<"What's the best way of promoting the MOQ? My humble opinion is that
> the Quality idea will sell itself, there is no other way forward and
> it will be conceived by many different thinkers in many different
> shapes. No particular policy or missionary activity is needed except
> us keeping up the discussing about its ramifications.">>>>>>>>>>>>>
It's the same problem. Seeing as nobody can clearly say what the MoQ is
then how can we advocate it. "The objective of the goup is to look more
closely at the MoQ and to come to some consensus about what the MoQ
says, how appropriate it is and how we can use it." You can't do these
things in reverse order.
And for my suggestions. Bodvar suggested discussing the MoQ's conception
of the self at one point. I think that would be good because Pirsig
doesn't make it very clear. And a few people have brought up the MoQ
and Time over the past few months though we've never really gone into
it. It's been suggested before that space-time is a static inorganic
pattern, but then some people also place dynamic and static quality
within a framework of time. In any case time is a big platypus and we
ought to have answer to it.
Diana
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