[MD] Definitions.

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:08 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Dan said to dmb:
> Lila is portrayed in the way she is to help flesh out the characteristics of someone caught in a biological web of love, hatred, jealousy, envy, lust, etc. She attacks Phaedrus and his 'intellect' not because she doesn't understand it, but because she understands it all too well.
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> dmb says:
> Let me add a little textual evidence to support what I've already said (below). He's not talking about Lila in particular here, but the relations between the levels in general. I think it shows that we can't leap-frog over a level of values. This overall evolutionary relationship also works on the personal level as a developmental relationship. Maslow's hierarchy of needs illustrates this developmental idea pretty well.

Hi Dave,

Yes, I agree, and if you read my previous post you'd probably see
that. I took pains to say that this goes a bit deeper than simply one
character attacking another character because 'she' doesn't understand
'him', since his is obviously a far superior intellect. Robert Pirsig
isn't talking about Lila or Phaedrus per se; he is developing a
metaphysics and using the storyline to explicate it.

Dan

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