[MD] Reductionism

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Dave,
Interesting, One begins to wonder if Pirsig modeled his books in the
Socratic method teaching with Maieutics which has roots in Orphism.

Would be interesting to explore the connections with the Hindu concept
of the game of Lila with Orphic themes.

-Ron




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From: david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 3:00:35 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Reductionism


Ron said to dmb: 
I also think that what you point out shadows the conversation of Phaedrus and Socrates on the subject of the art of rhetoric.  One must understand the whole in order to truly understand the parts. It is interesting how this conversation takes place outside society (Athens) where Socrates discusses madness and love in a manner that Pirsig discusses dynamic quality. In fact most of the dialog is a study in the dialectic of Dynamic and Static Quality.


dmb says:I think that's right. There is a passage in ZAMM where he says that Socrates descriptions in that dialogue are right on. Unlike Plato's fixed and rigid form of the Good, which only seemed the same at first but was actually quite different from Phaedrus's Quality, Socrates gets it right in that dialogue. That is next on my reading list, actually. I've got a little project going that demands it. I'm keeping it on the down low for now, but I'll tell you about it later.
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