[MD] the apple of my eye

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Ron Kulp <RKulp at ebwalshinc.com>:

>  
> 
> > 
> > [Platt]
> > The good old days when good and evil were easily recognized seems 
> > preferable to the current slow decline of Quality.
> > 
> > [Ron]
> > Is'nt the knowledge of good and evil what got us all in trouble in the
> 
> > first place?
> > {metaphorically} when the apple of knowledge was eaten the world split
> 
> > in two.
> > when knowledge of quality emerged, it emerged intellectually as
> dualism.
> [Platt]
> Don't think so. Pirsig explains good and evil beginning from the ground
> (inorganic) up. It's built into the fabric of the universe if you accept
> Pirsig's thesis that the world is a moral order. But, he could be wrong.
> I happen to think he's right.
> 
> [Ron]
> This is where I interpret it differently. You've been at this longer
> than I and you may be
> correct in regard to Pirsigs thesis but it then apears to me that MOQ is
> not offering
> anything new only a different definition of dualism.

I thought that Pirsig's idea that the world is a moral order was new, but
has Christianity being saying this all along? Is it just Pirsig's differing moral
levels that are new?

Thanks.

Platt





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