[MD] Percepts and Concepts.

[david buchanan]

Kat said to John and Ham:
I think that this (Arlo's point) is a very good point. I don't think that you can define art as an expression of emotion in a form other than words. I think that art is anything that is high-Quality. This would then include, as Arlo says, gardening, fixing motorcycles, engineering etc, and would mean that philosophy wasn't excluded as a form of art either. ... I hope that seeing the arguments from both sides of this dicussion all together will allow people to come to their own decision about what art is.



dmb (Dave) says:
Right, I think he made a very good point too and I'm especially fond of the idea that philosophy is an art form. Or rather, the idea that it can be. In Lila, where the MOQ's (Pirsig's philosophy, the metaphysics of quality) moral hierarchy is presented, the code of art is at the very top. As Arlo points out, "art" in this sense doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the "fine arts" such as painting or literature. The fine arts certainly AREN'T excluded from this broader sense of the word, but the MOQ's code of art is about something bigger. Much bigger.


Glad you could join the party.



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