[MD] [Moq_Discuss] Aristotle & DQ

[MarshaV]

At 10:33 PM 7/24/2007, Ham wrote:

"As Pirsig rejects both mind-substance (i.e. the 'ghost') and 
matter-substance (i.e. the machine) oriented ontologies of the world, 
he employs one underpinned by value based events.  Quality is 
considered the source of subjects and objects and can be regarded as 
a Dynamic event (1995a,p.12); an 'event at which the subject becomes 
aware of the object.'  (ZMM, 1974a, p.239)   These Quality events (or 
processes), therefore, obtain the status as the fundamental units or 
'primitives' of the universe and provide a unity between the observer 
and the observed; knowing mind and object.  In this respect, the MOQ 
is supported by Whitehead's work which also recognizes that the 
universe is better described in terms of Dynamic events of experience'."
     (McWatt,Anthony, 'A Critical Analysis of Robert Pirsig's 
Metaphysics of Quality', p.133)


Marsha