[MD] On Balance: Dewey, Pirsig and Granger

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[Marsha]
Could you explain your coherence theory using the hot   stove analogy?

[Mark]
Imagine you sit in a room near a hot  stove.
It is 8 o'clock on a shiveringly cold Winter morning.
You sit near  the stove and become snug in it's radiant glow.
As the morning progresses the  Sun climbs above the hills and your room
basks 
in it's ruddy  greeting.
You move a little further away from the stove now because snug is  becoming  
warm.
The cheery Sun climbs to a feeble midday and your  chair has to move even  
further from the stove in order for you to stay  snug.
All the while you have been reading Dewey, and your concentration  is  in 
harmony with your snug surroundings. Your chair has moved but  you don't
recall 
having done it for the motion was automatic and  appropriate as and when  
required.
Afternoon shadows lengthen and  your chair begins to slowly creep back
toward 
the hot stove.
In time,  your chair is back where it began before the Sun advanced,  and 
perhaps  now you motion towards a comfortable proximity between your  book
and  the 
welcome glow before you.
Such is coherence  perhaps?

[Case]
Very nice Mark! Would you say this also applies to  Marsha's concern over
balance where balance seems to imply to her equal  proportions?

Hi Case,
Sorry Case i may have missed that.
There may be something in what Marsha has in mind - fine (Ancient Greeks  
called the fine Kalos i think?) balance can tip magnitude with ease and grace.  
Maybe harmony of sorts is implied here?
Love,
Mark
 
P.S.
The way  that music in Ancient Greece is integrated into a seamless whole 
with other  social activities has considerable philosophical ramifications.  
There are in fact three intertwining or  overlapping issues here – concerning the 
concepts of music or mousike, of  art in general or techne, and the domain of 
the beautiful or  kalos.  For the Greeks, music  did not belong to anything 
like our modern system of the arts, which did not  exist at that time; moreover, 
the sphere of aesthetic value was not  distinguished from that of the 
ethical, religious, cognitive or practical in the  way that it has been in the West 
since the 18th century.