From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Apr 28 2005 - 15:58:46 BST
Arlo:
You asked:
> For clarity, then... you feel the MOQ is "theistic"? That is, Pirsig's
> intent was to show a "conscious designer" which could only be tenaciously
> believed in via "Faith"?
No.
> Rephrased: Is Quality a Conscious Designer?
No. Quality is an aesthetic psychic force. ("psychic" defined as lying
outside the sphere of physical science or knowledge: immaterial, moral, or
spiritual in origin). The Quality force, transcendent yet immanent,
created and continues to create the world of objects as a result of its
teleological thrust towards betterness. This force exhibits design because
the initial state and the laws of the universe together are well formed to
actualize the states of value of our experience.
Of course, this is an SOM description of Quality which, being prior to
thought, cannot be described except metaphorically.
How would you describe Quality? As "cultural semiosis?"
Platt
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