Re: MD What Good Are the Arts?

From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Tue May 31 2005 - 02:05:07 BST

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    Interesting point Scott,

    I seem to recall posting earlier my disappointment tha Pirsig left
    this line of research unfinished, having only just scartched the
    surface of something intriguing.

    I don't see it as undermining MoQ significantly though (careful with
    that razor, Aristotle). Pre- or Post- intellectualisation is just
    another convenient binary chop classification dichotomy, where there
    really is only a trend. Human rationalisation is a process not a
    point, and an evolving process at that.

    The rationalisation axis (degreee of freedom) is true enough even if
    the point doesn't exist.

    Ian

    On 5/31/05, Scott Roberts <jse885@localnet.com> wrote:
    > Ian, Platt,
    >
    > Ian said:
    > I tend to think Pirsig made the point already that the divison between
    > arts and "sciences" is a fiction anyway - I always believed his
    > etymology of Rt / Art / Craft / Rite / Right etc was particularly
    > telling.
    >
    > Scott:
    > What I find telling -- and not telling something good -- is that Pirsig left
    > "ratio" (reason) out of his list of derivations. If he hadn't left it out,
    > could he still describe DQ as "pre-intellectual"?
    >
    > - Scott
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