[MD] Flying Spaghetti Monsters

[Ham Priday]

Greetings, Craig [Platt mentioned] --



> I don't see the connection between the "explanatory power"
> of a metaphysics & the answer to the question, "Why survive?"

I don't, especially, either.  But it was Platt's question, not mine.

Platt said:

> But, despite reservations about idealism, I consider myself a
> Pirsigian because what counts in his metaphysics is that the
> world is a moral order. The underlying premise that some things
> are better than others fits nicely with my honoring the individual.
> And, the MOQ's explanatory power is second to none,
> answering, for example, such imponderables as, "Why survive?"

It's a leading question in the context of individual values for which any
meaningful philosophy should offer a reasonable explanation.  But I knew
that Platt's answer was going to come directly out of the mouth of Pirsig:
"It's better than the alternative."

And that's a moral Plattitude, not a metaphysical explanation.

--Ham