Re: MD What is a living being?

From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Sun May 04 2003 - 13:38:59 BST

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    Hi Rick,

    I'm gratified that you think the essay is worth a whole 'review' but I'd quibble a little with
    something you said:

    : RICK
    : I think you're right. I don't think Pirsig's vision of the MoQ sees humans
    : as the pinnacle of evolution (which is why he justifies human rights on the
    : basis of the protection of more highly evolved 'ideas'.) To Pirsig, the
    : human being is just another link the evolutionary chain. Sam's recent
    : 'Eudiamonic MoQ' essay presents a conception of the MoQ which does make
    : human individuals the crowning acheivement of evolution.

    I think autonomous individuals do stand at the top of the evolutionary tree (in precisely the same
    way that Pirsig thinks 'intellect' stands at the top) but I don't think that evolution has come to
    an end, so 'crowning achievement' is misleading. Who knows what will come next?

    Sam

    "Even to have expressed a false thought boldly and clearly is already to have gained a great deal."
    Wittgenstein, 1948

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