Hi all
There were a whole bunch of excellent topics from last month which got somewhat
overshadowed by the slow reading suggestion, so I thought I'd throw them back in again
for
another round
Horse
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In the event of an inter-level conflict is it ALWAYS the case that the
higher level of Value, as defined in the MOQ, has moral superiority? Are
there instances where this is not the case and how are they resolved? How is
it possible to recognize and/or resolve an intra-level moral conflict?
(Marco)
Is this static-dynamic split merely an epistemic convenience that we make
arbitrarily or is it an ontological reality, transcending our thoughts and
intellectual description of it?
(Marco)
What would our world look like today if the Sophists had won the debate
over the primacy of Truth over Quality?
(Marco)
have been busy the past few months putting together a book called
'Lila's Child' which chronicles the first months of TLS discussion
group, from August 1997 to April 1998.
The manuscript is now nearing completion and I would like to invite the
focus group to critique 'Lila's Child' chapter by chapter. Specifically
I am looking for suggestions to improve the flow of dialogue and help in
finding any redundancies, misspelling and grammatical errors that I
might have missed.
(Dan Glover)
(Original author Philip Wigg)
'Lila' was described in one it's reviews as 'having little to add but more dull
taxonomy'. Given
that trying to solve moral dilemmas using MOQ seems to create as much debate and
confusion as not using MOQ and there also seems to be considerable confusion as to the
interpretion of Pirsig's levels, is this a fair criticism?
(Horse)
(Original author Denis Poisson)
To further explore the Social and Intelectual Levels in terms of how they work and
their
composition. Also, if DNA is the "machine code" or interface between the inorganic and
the
biological levels, what form does the interface between the Biological and the Social
levels
take and similarly the interface between the Social and the Intellectual levels.
(Horse)
(Original author Kevin Sanchez)
How would Pirsig unite modernity and postmodernity. Chomsky advocates modernity
claiming we need morality to legitimize our actions and justice is the highest ideal
of
society. Foucault advocates postmodernity claiming that despite our need of it,
morality doesn't exists and that society defines its highest ideal as it wishes. It
seems
Pirsig can't appease the moderns because of his reliance on experience instead of
logic and
he can't appease the postmoderns because of his acceptance of a universal morality
instead of particular morality.
(Horse)
Can the MoQ be separated from LILA??? If so, how do we do it?
If not, how can this group ever really achieve anything more substantial
than literary criticism?
(Richard Budd)
MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
