[MD] heart

[david buchanan]

Marsha said to Arlo:
... I don't know where 'heart' fits in the pattern schema.   I think it has a close relationship with Dynamic Quality.  You know it when you're experiencing it, and normal language fails in adequately explaining it.  At least, that's my understanding.  Maybe it's different for you.



dmb says:
Yea, I prefer the word "soul". But this is not like a religious thing so much as "soul" in the Motown sense of word. You know, when you're diggin it, groovin on it, in the zone, with it. "Heart" is sometimes related to soulfulness but you also find a lot of them on Hallmark cards and Valentine's Day is even cheesier than that, if that's possible. In any case, I think it definitely has a place in the MOQ, a very central place.

"In the past our common universe of reason has been in the process of escaping, rejecting the romantic, irrational world of prehistoric man. It's been necessary since before the time of Socrates to reject the passions, the emotions, in order to free the rational mind for an understanding of nature's order which was as yet unknown. Now it's time to further an understanding of nature's order by reassimilating those passions which were originally fled from. The passions, the emotions, the affective domain of man's consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. The central part."  (Robert Pirsig in ZAMM, p. 294)

“  …To speak more seriously, the one fundamental quarrel Empiricism has with Absolutism is over this repudiation by Absolutism of the personal and aesthetic factor in the construction of philosophy. That we all of us have feelings, Empiricism feels quite sure. That they may be as prophetic and anticipatory as anything else we have, and some of them more so than others, can not possibly be denied. But what hope is there of squaring and settling opinions unless Absolutism will hold parley on this common ground; and will admit that all philosophies are hypotheses, to which all our faculties, emotional as well as logical help us, and the truest of which will at the final integration of things be found in possession of the men whose faculties on the whole had the best diving power? (William James in ABSOLUTISM AND EMPIRICISM, p.96)