[MD] Free Will

[David Harding]

Hi Ron,

What is wrong with using both of those terms as Pirsig originally did
when describing Dynamic Quality.

In other words, what is wrong with 'undefined betterness'?





On 25/04/2011, at 12:44 PM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> Mary,
> DQ must have some sort of static meaning to be useful.
> This meaning, is both, undefined and an elementary unit of ethics.
> Betterness is the closest we can ever get to the understanding
> of the basic meaning of DQ. It has greater explanitory power
> than a strictly undefined meaning or no meaning for that fact.
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> -Ron
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> Ron?  You are saying that DQ is "an elementary unit of ethics upon which all
> right and wrong can be based"?
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> I got from the quote that betterness is not DQ but an initial response to DQ.
> Isn't that different?
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> 'So what Phaedrus was saying was that not just life, but everything, is an
> ethical activity. It is nothing else. When inorganic patterns of reality create
> life the Metaphysics of Quality postulates that they've done so because it is
> 'better' and that this definition of 'betterness'- this beginning response to
> Dynamic Quality- is an elementary unit of ethics upon which all right and wrong
> can be based.(LILA, p 161)
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> On Apr 23, 2011, at 10:07 AM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:
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>> Mary:
>> What do you use it for?
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>> Ron:
>> an elementary unit of ethics upon which all right and wrong can be based.(LILA,
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>> p 161)
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>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:19 AM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:
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>>> To say that DQ is strictly nonconceptual is to say that DQ is strictly
>>> meaningless
>>> and does not explain anything. It is rendered useless.
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>>> Andre:
>>> I am reluctant to 'understand' DQ as 'betterness'.
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>> [Mary]
>>> Agree, Andre.  Betterness is a static pattern of value.
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