[MD] MOQ & Deleuze

[David M]

Hi Ham

Always glad to be of service.

Regards
David M

> Greetings, David --
>
>
> I'm indebted to you for referencing this source:
>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleuze
>>
>> some interesting ideas of Deleuze about how experience
>> and concepts relate that MOQers might like to ponder. Deleuze puts 
>> difference before identity, or could that be
>> DQ/flux over SQ?
>
> How Deleuze's metaphysical concept of Difference may relate to Pirsig's 
> levels and patterns remains to be seen.  But his theory offers new support 
> for my ontogeny of differentiated existents.  I was particularly struck by 
> Wiki's interpretation of this concept:
>
>    Traditionally, difference is seen as derivative from identity:
>    e.g., to say that "X is different from Y" assumes some X and Y
>    with at least relatively stable identities.  To the contrary, Deleuze
>    claims that all identities are effects of difference.  Identities are
>    not logically or metaphysically prior to difference, Deleuze argues,
>    "given that there exist differences of nature between things of
>    the same genus."  That is, not only are no two things ever the
>    same, the categories we use to identify individuals in the first
>    place derive from differences.
>
> Here's how The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes this French 
> academician's contribution to philosophy:
>
> "Deleuze conceived of philosophy as the production of concepts, and he 
> characterized himself as a 'pure metaphysician.'  In his magnum opus 
> Difference and Repetition, he tries to develop a metaphysics adequate to 
> contemporary mathematics and science - a metaphysics in which the concept 
> of multiplicity replaces that of substance, event replaces essence and 
> virtuality replaces possibility."
>
> Thanks for pointing us to this reference, Dave.  It puts a new slant on 
> the Beingness of Sartrean Existentialism.  I shall have to explore Deleuze 
> more thoroughly.
>
> Regards,
> Ham
>
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