From: Matthew Stone (mattstone_2000@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 16:06:41 GMT
Jon,
> I believe what
> Matt is saying is that both Pirsig and postmodernism
> say that certain aspects
> of reality are indefinable.
What I'm saying goes beyond this - my view on Pirsig's
application regarding postmodernism is that he deals
with how to live, or moreover, how to think, within a
world where indeterminacy has recently been shown to
strike blows for the big universal concepts that have
dominated our lives, and our thinking, up until the
middle of the 20th century. You can deny that
absolute morals exist (a simplistic example of
postmodernity), but you can't deny that there exist
certain patterns of value that favour certain moral
configurations (Pirsig) - hence Pirsig helps forge a
new 'thought' that allows one to cope better with
indeterminacy than SOM.
Matt
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