Re: MD What makes an idea dangerous?

From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 20:37:35 GMT

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    In a message dated 11/3/03 5:03:33 PM GMT Standard Time, skutvik@online.no
    writes:

    > We have Pirsig's letter where he draws the
    > intellectual line with the Ancient Greeks, but it sounds as only from
    > necessity lest it would stretch away into absurdity.

    Bo,
    The 'line' as you determine it is not drawn. There can be no such line as no
    one was there to make a note of it.
    What Pirsig indicates is that thinking goes back before the Ancient Greeks,
    but the Ancient Greeks established an Intellectually dominated culture.
    There is no line drawn, merely an indication of when records began to display
    the dominance of Intellectual patterns. This does not exclude thinking as an
    intellectual activity, because writing, language and the manipulation of
    symbols is an intellectual activity, and is a matter of record.
    The character if patterns which dominate society in Ancient Greek culture are
    therefore extensions of a process already well under way, but not yet
    dominating social patterns - the pinnacle of mathematics and abstraction can
    therefore be well described as Intellectual art - the response of Intellectual
    patterns to Quality.
    Mark

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