[MD] Dewey's Zen

[Dan Glover]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Tuukka Virtaperko
<mail at tuukkavirtaperko.net> wrote:
> Dan,
>
>>>  Dewey took great pains to remind us that the primary locus of human
>>> experience is not atomistic sense impressions, but rather what he called a
>>> "situation," by which he meant, not just our physical setting, but the whole
>>> complex of physical, biological, social, and cultural conditions that
>>> constitute any given experience—experience taken in its fullest, deepest,
>>> richest, broadest sense.
>>
>> Dan:
>> A minor quibble here... in the MOQ, experience is synonymous with
>> Dynamic Quality. Static quality comes later... inorganic, biological,
>> social, intellectual.
>
>
> Tuukka:
> Yeah. The author doesn't have the concept of Dynamic Quality, so he
> flounders at that point. "any given experience—experience taken in its
> fullest, deepest, richest, broadest sense." seems to attempt to be a crude
> reference to Dynamic Quality, but it's too vague to be of much use to anyone
> except those, who already have the concept of DQ.

Dan:
As I said, it is a minor quibble on my part... I think that is why
Robert Pirsig wrote a metaphysics... to provide a framework for ideas
like this. And this is why having an understanding of the basics of
the MOQ is so vitally important if our discussions are going to hold
any meaning. To claim one is past such basics is like a baseball
player who cannot hit a curve ball saying he is past all that. He
won't last long.

Dan

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