From: Johannes Volmert (jvolmert@student.uni-kassel.de)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 08:18:02 GMT
Ok,.....I see, I've got trapped myself! :-)
Of course this connection IS functional in a way, concerning the fact
that Pirsig himself decided to let the intellectual level start there.
The last one was a bit 'on the spur of the moment', so forget about it!
JoVo
>
> Another way to prove such an identity would be to show that the
> temporal coincidence (Emergence at times of the Greeks) of SOM and the
> intellectual level is *functional* and not *accidental* AND also that
> the existence of other systems of thinking is NOT *functional* to the
> emergence of the intellectual level .
>
> To prove the second is much more difficult, IMO: Pirsig obviously
> makes use of buhddistic and hinduistic ideas in both books. In fact I
> do see the MOQ as a synthesis of SOM, Hinduism and Buddhism. Pirsig
> doesn't say so explicitly, but indictions are overwhelming (Phew...:
> IMO).
>
> Once more: Write it down and demonstrate how SOLAQI works!! As long
> as we don't know about what we are talking actually, neither you nor
> other people have the possibility to argue it out properly.
>
> With best Regards, JoVo
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