[MD] Step One

[Andre Broersen]

Platt (and Marsha) to Andre:

You may be right, of course, but as I see it there was no metaphysics of
subject and objects before Pirsig identified it as such. Further, SOM is a fall
out of DQ, like all value patterns are. Finally, Pirsig's identification and
observations about the nature of SOM resulted from his response to DQ which, as
you know, is the creative moral force and, as Pirsig has written, "the source
of all things." (Lila, 9)

Andre:
That's fair enough. As Pisig writes in Annotn 144:
'There has been no an academic category called “subject-object” metaphysics for the same reason that before Columbus discovered America there was no such geographical category as an “Old World.” Columbus discovery created the “Old World” as that entity which Columbus left behind. In the same way the MOQ has “created” subject-object  metaphysics as that system of thought which the MOQ has left behind'.