From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 00:44:13 GMT
Hey Platt:
>Sorry for being dense but are you saying that the MoQ structure is a
>like the Great Chain of Being idea which some people think provides an
>"objective" basis for moral decisions? Also, I'm puzzled by "irrational
>people who think that humans rule the roost." Humans as opposed to
>who or what? What roost? Thanks.
No, I'm not saying that the Great Chain of Being provides an "objective"
basis for moral decisions. I'm saying that there are two seperable
features in the MoQ that can be grasped at for rhetorical purposes: one, it
puts humans at the top of an ontological pyramid and says they have moral
superiority. Second, it makes claims of being rationally based. Claims of
objectivity, which Pirsig helped us see through, are what Marxist's
attached to Communism. I don't think that's what Pirsig's claiming for the
MoQ.
My saying, "It would (theoretically) combine together irrational people who
think that humans
rule the roost and rational people who simply want to be able to tell right
from wrong without any doubt," was simply to contrast two disparate groups
of people who could (theoretically) fine solace in the MoQ. "Humans" at
the top of the ontological pyramid are opposed to anything else you could
put up there, like roosters, and opposed to, more probably, people who
think that there isn't an ontological pyramid at all.
The "roost" refers to a chicken roost where farmers keep their chickens.
Matt
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