[MD] Does Quality exist?

[Redsky235 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/4/2007 3:07:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
moq_discuss-request at lists.moqtalk.org writes:

It's a  playground of value.  Don't you realized what that means?   Be  
aware and value what is good.



Ok, say I think a certain Mozart symphony has Quality, i.e., it  reveals 
quality to me.  All of my feelings and instincts tell me that it is  a "good" 
piece of music.  One day I play it ten times (!) and by the end,  I'm so 
thoroughly sick of the piece that I probably won't dig it out for another  year.  Have 
I tired of "quality?"  If it's just my personal reaction,  then surely I 
should be able to overcome my weariness with the work, since  recognizing Quality 
is all about letting go of one's preconceived notions.
 
 
 
dmb  says:
As we saw in the quote Bo posted, the thought experiment, removing  Quality 
to see how the world would be effected, results in the loss of the  fine arts. 
We'd still be able to distinquish a wall from a painting, but not a  good wall 
from a bad wall or a good painting from a bad one. In such a world  we'd 
probably still have walls but the loss of quality would make the arts  into a 
pointless exercise in changing a thing's shape for no reason at all.  Walls 
function as a barrier to the outside but art's function is predicated on  a sense of 
quality such that they couldn't function without it. Without  quality in the 
world, there'd be no reason NOT to eat the same dry, tasteless  food pellets 
at every meal - like a dog.

Why would we be able to distinguish a wall and a painting but not two  
paintings?  I thought Quality was the ability to distinguish  items.




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