[MD] The Word is Not the Thing

[plattholden at gmail.com]

On 17 Sep 2009 at 12:27, X Acto wrote:

> Platt,
> 
> All of the books mentioned before posit a value centered reality
> 
> Pirsig was the first to present it in an evolutionary frame work
> 
> and we all know how you feel about evolution.
> 
> see:
> "Axiology"

I did, in Wiki. Didn't see anything like "value centered reality."

I ask evolutionary theory the same question Pirsig does, "Why survive?"


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> and no one has implicitly stated
> "I am the way the truth and the light"
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> 
> keep looking for distinctions and thats all one finds
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> the point that you and others keep missing oh Zen archer
> 
> is that when Quality is realized, all teachings pertain to it.
> 
> an un-aimed arrow never misses. only by exclusion does one miss the mark.
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> ----- Original Message ----
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> On 17 Sep 2009 at 8:58, X Acto wrote:
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> 
> > [Platt]
> > Surely were, as are all college textbooks. Can anyone name a book that 
> > is MOQ-steeped other than those written by Pirsig? The New Testament 
> > perhaps?
> > 
> > the works of Plato
> > 
> > the tao te ching
> > 
> > the Buddhist scriptures
> > 
> > the works of C.S. Pierce, Wm James, Royce, Rorty, Dewey
> > 
> > the works of Krishnamurti
> > 
> > Einstien, David Bohm, Werner Heisenberg, Niehls Bohr
> > 
> > ect....ect.....ect...
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> 
> Maybe so, but I don't believe any of the above or anyone else for that 
> matter has written a metaphysics that states explicitly, "The world is 
> primarily a moral order." (Lila, 7) and then has gone on to show how that 
> moral order is structured into levels and the relationship between moral 
> levels.  
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