[MD] Philosophy is deadly

[Andre Broersen]

  John to Andre:

Isn't the MoQ a monism?    Isn't Quality, Good?  How can one say Quality is
bad and good? That takes away the value of Quality.

Andre:
That seems to depend on the 'broadness' of one's perspective one John. Here is
what Anthony's PhD suggests noting the 'ambiguities with 'Quality':

'Even when taken by itself, Pirsig's employment of 'Quality' extends its traditional
understanding from a synonym of 'excellence' to a denotation of all reality (whether
good or bad) producing two different applications of the term: 'Quality as everything
that exists and 'Quality' as what is best. This is not ideal especially as a seemingly
negative thing (such as disease) is retained as a pattern of 'Quality'. Pirsig (2001d)
justifies this by suggesting that 'static patterned quality can be positive or negative
the way temperature or pressure or wealth or a thousand other patterned things can be
positive or negative' and that existence AS A WHOLE is fundamentally valuable'. (pp 57-8)