--- John and Ruth Beasley <beasley@internetnorth.com.au> wrote:
> Roger, David, Rich, Platt, Walter and others,
>
> I have been following the current MD threads with
> interest and some frustration. The
> frustration arises from the wealth of material being
> covered, and my desire to limit the time I
> spend with it. Rather than attempt to pick out bits
> and pieces of what has seemed to me a
> very good debate about basics, I took the
> opportunity of several days with the flu to attempt
> my own synthesis. First I extracted what I took to
> be significant strands in Pirsig's
> metaphysics as presented in Lila, then critiqued
> them from my own perspective, using the
> concept of the organism as a unifying factor.
>
> This has helped me to clarify a number of things
> that have always troubled me about Pirsig's
> presentation, assisted me to challenge those bits I
> don't like, and driven me to attempt (oh,
> hubris) to do it better. No doubt there will be
> plenty of you able to make abundantly clear the
> inadequacy of my attempt. I've sent this off to
> Diana for publication in the Forum, where it
> should appear in a few days. So this is just to say
> that I have not been ignoring the debate,
> but perhaps might be able to add to it through a
> more sustained critique of what I take to be
> the bases for the MOQ.
>
> John B
> please delete this address from your list. my enail address was used
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bjeanboop
>
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