[MD] Intellect's Symposium

[david buchanan]

Gav said:

plato: good is relative; truth is absolute
pirsig: truth is relative; good is absolute is this summary accurate?


dmb says:
The short form. Okay.
Plato: The Good is a fixed, eternal form beyond the world of appearances, second only to Truth itself.
Pirsig: The Good is dynamic and known directly while truth is a static species of the good and is known intellectually.

In other words, the battle between the Good and the true is a battle between dynamic and static quality. I don't know if my Plato professor was convinced, but I did get the highest score for his course and for the paper in which I made that case. I figure that means it couldn't have sucked too much, that it makes some sense even to a Plato scholar. For whatever that's worth...





 		 	   		  
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