Re: MD Role of imagination with beauty

From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 21:52:31 BST

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    DMB,

    Much as I gather I confuse you, I'm pretty perplexed by you. I don't simply dismiss religion and mysticism out of hand. How could I, formally having taken Pirsig's word so seriously? But you can keep reading it that way if you want.

    What I'm confused about is the force of something like "correspondence to the cosmic order of things." Sure, its poetic, but since I'm misreading you, and you seem to follow in the contingency of history and the evolving nature of history and truth, the phrase "correspondence to the cosmic order of things" seems to be more misleading than anything else for us poor, degenerate pragmatic "materialists".

    Oh, and, again, I know I'm misreading Pirsig. Rarely do I not note my disagreements with the word of Pirsig. I think I already noted Pirsig's ambivalence in describing Dynamic Quality in this thread, because I remember Rick saying that he agreed that Pirsig's ambivalent. I think our disagreement about the misreading is that you think it rips the heart out of Pirsig, whereas I think it renders him philosophically palitable.

    Matt

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