[MD] in defence of the "relative"

[John Carl]

Greetings Joe,

Pirsig subtitles Lila with ³An Inquiry into Morals².  My take on that
> subtitle is that he expects a discussion to follow evolution as a
> foundation
> for morality.



This is exactly backwards and a significant error, in my view (and
Pirsig's).

Morality is the foundation for evolution, not the other way around.  In fact
evolution doesn't make sense without some sort of "betterness" to evolve
into.   The idea that morality is defined by a static hierarchical
formulation of any kind is ludicrous as well as antithetical to the very
heart of the MoQ - its an attempt to capture and define Q.

Shame!

John the pious