[MD] Bo's right! For all the wrong reasons? (Part2)

[David Thomas]

Hi Ian,
>[Ian]
> But, Where are you going with this Dave ?
> but I'm struggling to see what's new or what's the point ?
>The "MoQ is screwed up beyond repair" (?), so .... what ... are you saying ?

In the words of that CW song, " I'm already there, take a look around.."
For 15 years or so I've studied Pirsig's work and discussed it with others
like you. I've recently come to the following conclusions:

1. Pirsig is a highly skilled writer and rhetorician.
2. The primarily value of his work is that it makes field of philosophy
accessible to a much broader audience than a majority of "real" academic
philosophers.
3. While his writing skills attracts a broader audience, that audience, you
and I, is in general less skilled in philosophy than either Pirsig or people
who pursue the field as a life's work.
4. Unfortunately he is a much less skilled scholar, philosopher, and
metaphysician than he is a writer. Because of this the metaphysics he
develops creates as many, or more problems than the system he is trying to
replace. More dangerously he attempts to create a naturalistic moral
metaphysics, one in which all of reality is a moral order based on a
hierarchical system domination and dependence, that when applied by
neophytes, such as a majority of the people here including me, leads to
conclusions I find morally objectionable or just plain wrong.

But that's just me.

Dave