[MD] A larger system of understanding

[plattholden at gmail.com]

Hi All,

At the risk of beating a dead horse and getting banned I offer the following 
Pirsig quote as further evidence that including the MOQ in the intellectual 
level doesn't make sense. 

"The Metaphysics of Quality resolves the relationship between intellect and 
society, subject and object, mind and matter, by embedding all of them in a 
larger system of understanding. Objects are inorganic and biological values; 
subjects are social and intellectual values." (Lila, 24)

Perhaps someone can explain, if the MOQ is a set of subjective intellectual 
values how it can see itself as a set of subjective system of values --  the 
problem an eye seeing itself.

For me the explanation is that the MOQ is a larger system of understanding 
because unlike intellectual values, it admits a nonintellectual value, DQ, 
leading to the conclusion that the essence of the MOQ is only understood from a 
mystic, not an intellectual, perspective. 

The MOQ escapes the intellectual level by including within its system of 
understanding that, "Thought is not a path to reality,".a direct contradiction 
of intellectual values. 

If thus expressing my opinion gets me banned from mog_discuss, so be it. But, I 
hope not and look forward to comments. . 

Regards,
Platt