[MD] self: agent of action & thinker of thoughts

[X Acto]

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See, to merely take the culturaly assumed concept of the self,I,free agent..ect

As the Self..is the illusion..the appearence of self.

to explore the form of self, what it is and is not...the consequences of each conceptualization
is what we mean by persuing philosphical truth.


Ron adds:
What I mean is that the cultural myth, the metaphysical assumption is the appearence of
what is true and real. Pirsig calls it a ridiculous fiction.

When the cultural concept of the self is subjected to philosophical scrutiny it dissolves into
relational values it both is and is not. Both singular and plural, one and many.

Thats what Pirsig really lends to the inquirey the ability to understand ourselves as a complex
ecology of competing forms of value, to subject the idea of the self to a radical breakdown in 
meaning in order to emerge from the inquirey with a more accurate, precise and truer understanding
of what it means to "be".

In the process we develope a greater intelligibility of the concept or the form of the self, I, active
agent..ect...and in doing so we are activly seeking the good. The true form of morality
and not the mere appearence of it.

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