From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 05:09:58 BST
All Daves and MOQers:
Dave S said:
...the virtue of post-rational thinking ..is that it recognizes that all the
levels have reasons of their own, and that all levels are important, but
limited, and of course, some are more limited than others. Of course, this
is
exactly what pirsig's levels are all about.
dmb says:
Right. And the moral codes recognize the limitations of each level. They
give us an idea of each level's "juristiction", if you will.
I'd like to make just one simple point on the matter of "irrationality". I
think its analogous to the way we use the word "irresponsible". We don't say
babies are irresponsible for the same reason that we don't say pre-modern
people are irrational. Non-rational would be ok, but pre-rational is much
more correct. A person can't be responsible until they've achieved a certain
level of maturity. When a person fails AFTER becoming capable of
responsibility, then we call him irresponsible. So it is with irrational
beliefs. Most of the people who hold them are perfectly capable of being
rational. Think of creationism, for example. The most astonishing mental
gymnastics are preformed in our to dress up the myth in all kinds of fancy
intellectual clothes.
Irrationality is a certain kind of dishonesty, a certain kind of cheating
and lying.
Thanks,
dmb
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