[MD] expanded rationality
MarshaV
valkyr at att.net
Tue May 29 01:02:50 PDT 2012
Andre,
On May 28, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Andre Broersen <andrebroersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> And that is exactly what you keep on doing. Nothing 'impasse'. You, Marsha lack a basic understanding of Pirsig's reasoning as to why, in building, in formulating his metaphysics, he took so much care and agonised over the first division. And it had to be DQ/sq.
"... a 'Metaphysics of Quality' is essentially a contradiction in terms, a logical absurdity.
"...
"'Ahh, do it anyway. It's interesting.' This was the intellectual part that didn't like undefined things, and telling it not to define Quality was like telling a fat man to stay out of the refrigerator, or an alcoholic to stay out of bars. To the intellect the process of defining Quality has a compulsive quality of its own. It produces a certain excitement ..."
(RMP, 'LILA')
But I want to believe that he also wanted to inspire each of us our own enlightened insight.
Marsha
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