[MD] Dynamic Quality as Beauty

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
While reading a review of "The History of Beauty" by Umberto Eco, I 
came across the following:

[Arlo]
Eco is an insightful scholar, and I believe that his writings on 
Peirce's notion of "abduction" tie in very cleanly with Pirsig's 
comments on hypothesis creation (and later the notion of 
pre-intellectual awareness of Quality), which itself mentions 
parallels to Einstein and Poincare.

Although (IMO) his thoughts on both "beauty" and "ugliness" rely too 
exclusively on their historical trajectory in Western cultures, the 
overall theme(s) he presents should resonate with those familiar with 
Pirsig's works (I wouldn't say its an mirror match).

You may find this online lecture he gave "On the History of Ugliness" 
interesting (and its free).

http://videolectures.net/cd07_eco_thu/