Re: MD Awareness and intuition.

From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 00:05:00 BST

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    Joe,

    Joe said:
    SOM makes a distinction in 'existence' to create subjective and objective
    words (if we wish to talk to each other.) Does Pirsig fall into a similar
    trap by making a distinction in 'quality'? Do we have 'subjective' quality
    dq (indefianble), and 'objective' quality sq (definable static-latched dq)?

    My impression is that Matt E would say: "Yes he does, so forget it."

    Matt:
    Well now, wait a second. Never have a bashed the distinction that Pirsig draws in Lila. Compared to the usual list of Greek dichotomies, I like the distinction between dynamic and static. The mistake that I think Pirsig makes is attempting to do metaphysics. I see him as hypostatizing (as paradoxical as it looks) his distinction. In this case, both the MoQ and SOM, then, fall into similar modern philosophical problems. I think that Pirsig probably evades a subjective/objective distinction, but I don't think he evades an appearance/reality distinction.

    Matt

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