[MD] [Moq_Discuss] Aristotle & DQ

[Ham Priday]

Hi Marsha, Ron --


[Marsha]:
> I didn't insert the above reference.  Here is the url for the Summary:
>
> http://robertpirsig.org/MOQSummary.htm


Sorry for the foul-up.  I reviewed the above reference, which is mostly the 
author's complaint that LILA was "not as successful as it should be among 
academic philosophers."  His Summary  is basically stated in the first 
paragraph:

"The MOQ...is simply a philosophic answer to the question of what is 
Quality, or worth, or merit, or value, or betterness or any of the other 
synonyms for good.  There are many possible answers but the one the MOQ 
gives is that you can understand Quality best if you don't subordinate it to 
anything else but instead subordinate everything else to it."

I can state this even more simply: Quality is what is Good, and everything 
is subordinate to it.
A philosopher can't get much simpler than that!

Anyway, I did not attribute that quote about the MOQ being a "method of 
investigation, a tool for a more accurate perception" to you; I just assumed 
it came from the MOQSummary source.  Evidently it did not, and this was 
either Ron's own comment or that of some other reviewer.  In either case, I 
stand by the criticisms I made.

Regards and apologies,
--Ham