[MD] [Bulk] Re: Rorty's Relativism

[MarshaV]

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance left one enormous metaphysical
problem unanswered that became the central driving reason for the expansion
of the Metaphysics of Quality into a second book called Lila. This problem
was: if Quality is a constant, why does it seem so variable? Why do people
have different opinions about it? The answer became: The quality that was
referred to in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance can be subdivided
into Dynamic Quality and static quality. Dynamic Quality is a stream of
quality events going on and on forever, always at the cutting edge of the
present. But in the wake of this cutting edge are static patterns of value.
These are memories, customs and patterns of nature. The reason there is a
difference between individual evaluations of quality is that although
Dynamic Quality is a constant, these static patterns are different for
everyone because each person has a different static pattern of life history.
Both the Dynamic Quality and the static patterns influence his final
judgment. That is why there is some uniformity among individual value
judgments but not complete uniformity."
   (RMP,SPOV)


Relative as "each person has a different static pattern of life history".