[MD] Boromir's Journey

[John Carl]

Matt, gav,

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Matt Kundert
<pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> matt said: and, along a different angle, not being able to
> actually effect a perfection--your point--breeds leibnizian
> thoughts of theodicy: this world is the best of all possible
> worlds, which voltaire laughed at as absurd and the rest of
> us should look at as a simplisitic apology of worseness that
> ameliorates the impetus to change it.
>


A really good movie will often contain a great villain.  The quality of the
movie experience is enhanced by the evil of the villain.  In fact, you will
even hear, on occasion, "Man! He was a perfect villain."

Pefect villains make perfect stories.

 The evil is the contrasting outline of the good inline of existence.

According to Royce, perfection isn't a thing, it's a process.  THE process -
of the good overcoming the bad.


Matt]

in this case--sure, a conceptual truism, but i tend to think
that, just like leibniz trying to fit evil into the truism of the
perfection of god, i tend to think it's best to stand aside
from thinking of anything as a "perfection," as opposed to a
"perfecting," a good sense which can be--but is not the
only--sense to be attached to "betterness" being "perfection."

John]

It sounds like you agree with us (Royce and me), Matt.  "Perfecting" as
opposed to "Perfection" is exactly the point.

Thanks for letting me butt in,


John