[MD] -elitist ideas

[MarshaV]

At 04:08 PM 3/10/2007, Platt wrote:
>Quoting MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>:
>
>
> > I should have left things at the above
> > statement.  It's not called the Metaphysics of
> > Betterness, "betterness" is just a very confusing
> > term.  The way I read the quotes that you sited
> > were that "betterness" is the movement towards
> > Dynamic Quality that will provide for getting
> > unstuck.  The "betterness" is the
> > unstuckness.  But, Dynamic Quality is still
> > amoral in my book, not good, not bad, not
> > betterness, not any definition.  And if good is a
> > noun (a static pattern of value), so is bad a
> > noun.  Only a hand-written explanation from
> > Pirsig, himself, will convince me otherwise.
>
>Hand written by Pirsig himself in Chap. 7 of Lila:
>
>"Because Quality is morality. Make no mistake about it. They're identical.
>And if Quality is the primary reality of the world then that means morality
>is also the primary reality of the world. The world is primarily a 
>moral order."
>
>Arlo is right. DQ is about "betterness."

Greetings Platt,

You cannot define as moral that which cannot be defined.  According 
to Pirsig, Dynamic Quality cannot be defined.

Marsha