[MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet II !

[Platt Holden]

[DMB]
> Platt and all:
> Nary a mention of moral codes? Well, first of all Mati was asking for
> definitions of the levels, not the codes. Its kinda silly to complain just
> because we're staying on the topic. But more than that, its just not true.

[Platt]
It just is true. Pirsig defines the levels by the codes.

[Pirsig]
"First, there were moral codes that established the supremacy of biological 
life over inanimate nature. Second, there were moral codes that established 
the supremacy of the social order over biological life-conventional morals 
-proscriptions against drugs, murder, adultery, theft and the like. Third, 
there were moral codes that established the supremacy of the intellectual 
order over the -social order-democracy, trial by jury, freedom of speech, 
freedom of the press." (Lila, 13)

It's kinda silly to ignore how Pirsig defines the levels. Nothing here are 
elsewhere about birds-eye views.