[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[David M]

Platt

This makes me wonder,  to what extent is
quality a form of language prior to human langauge?
A form that is less value neutral than some aspects
of human language?

David M

> 
> First, I agree with your second paragraph about reason. Second, 
> spiritual to me means what the mystics say about reality, i.e., it's  
> beyond words. Pirsig put it this way: "They (mystics) share a common 
> belief that the fundamental nature of reality is outside language; that 
> language splits things up into parts while the true nature of reality 
> is undivided." Another way to say the same thing is that "the only 
> valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained." So I 
> can't weight it, describe it or think about it in any way. Like 
> experience itself, spirit is just there, a value that is "immediate, 
> intuitive, undeliberate and involuntary, leaving no room for conscious 
> application of standards, criteria, rules or precepts." 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Platt
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