Platt,Struan mder's
Platt when you say "perhaps because I’m one of the unschooled
“anti-intellectuals and distortionists” you find on this site" it is pure
rhetorical BS and you know it!
That being said and understanding that this site is dedicated to the
discussion of Pirsig's work; How does it futher the understanding of his work
to isolate his work from all other philosophy? Are we to claim that the MoQ
was created by "divine intervention" or that Pirsig's work appeared on a
"blank slate" with no influence from prior philosophies? We know from his
writing that many, if not most, of those ten-jillion slips were references to
other peoples work that he read extensively in preparation for writing.
Platt, I believe you would agree that is reasonable to say that the MoQ is
moral or meta-ethical philosophy. So let's ask a moral question.
Is it ethical to write philosophy and publish it in the guise of novels?
Here are the patterns of value we need to morally adjudicate.
1. The cards are stacked against him,
2. He refused to "play the game"
3. Wrote two books that were published, promoted, and can be read as "novels"
4. He defends his work, in part, as original, serious, philosophy.
But the kicker is this approach avoids the need to accredit any sources. After
all it's only FICTION!
The criteria we would like it to meet is "If everybody did this would the
world be a better place."
DLT
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