[MD] Chance

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> Don't you wish. You can run but you can't hide from Pirsig's words: 
> "Neither is there a quarrel between the Metaphysics of Quality and 
> the "teleological" theories
> which insist that life has some purpose."  You may quarrel until the 
> cows come home, but it won't change one wit what Pirsig said.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Unlike you, I don't pretend or ignore Pirsig when I disagree with 
> him. What you still have not answered, is "which" teleological 
> "purposes" are correct? All of them? Doesn't this make "purpose" 
> completely relative?

Well -- at last. You admit you disagree with Pirsig's including teleological
theories within the MOQ. I was wondering if you would ever get around to that.

 
> As for running from Pirsig's words, if you read Pirsig and feel that 
> he is proposing a Quality with a conscious volition and intent, a 
> Quality which formulates plans and enacts them, a Quality that orders 
> and controls the cosmos to its will, a Quality that ordered the 
> cosmos to produce "you", and sends cyclones against the Burmese 
> people as part of its "plan", then all you've done is turn Pirsig's 
> Quality into "Quali-god". Good luck with that.

All Pirsig is proposing is evolution towards greater versatility and freedom.
The other stuff you imagine is just that -- your imagination. 




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