[MD] Problems with the Academic Approach

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Marsha]
The MoQ is a designation for Reality equals Quality.  Do you agree?

[Arlo]
Not exactly. 

"The Metaphysics of Quality, or MOQ, is simply a philosophic answer to the
question of what is Quality, or worth, or merit, or value, or betterness or any
of the other synonyms for good. There are many possible answers but the one the
MOQ gives is that you can understand Quality best if you don't subordinate it
to anything else but instead subordinate everything else to it. " (Pirsig)

It is an intellectual pattern developed around the pre-intellectual concept of
Quality. "The Metaphysics of Quality itself is static and should be separated
from the Dynamic Quality it talks about. " (Pirsig)

The MOQ IS Pirsig's attempt to build an academic, intellectual framework around
this primary, pre-intellectual Quality. "Reality equals Quality" is one of the
intellectual principles of the MOQ.