From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 15:02:51 GMT
Hi Matt:
> On evolution, I think you're right to get the creeps by Pirsig. There's a
> lot there that can be co-opted by demagogues. I don't think he's
> completely off the mark, however, we just have to take him the right way.
> To think Pirsig is offering us a way of objectively determining right and
> wrong is a poor interpretation. That lends him way to easily to
> demagoguery and I don't think it takes his stance on objectivity accurately
> (at least, what I remember his stance to be). I can offer several better
> ways, but they stray to interpretations I've given before and, once again,
> I hesitate to go into them without someone asking me to.
I think Pirsig offers us a way to rationally (not objectively) determine
right and wrong and fail to see how his analysis can lead to more
demagoguery than any other moral stance one takes--rational,
mythological, communal or whatever. Perhaps you'll explain?
Thanks.
Platt
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