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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: Facts and Values (was Where it came from)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.204519.26185@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:45:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.202330.1264@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
- >I missed the start of this thread.
- >
- >Did someone read "Lilith" by
- > Robert (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Pirsig?
- >
- >In a philosophy book disguised as a novel, Robert Pirsig tries to
- >show how science has a morality. He calls it the "metaphysics of
- >quality." The world is made of two principles, the dynamic and the
- >static. The dynamic is unknowable, mystic, etc. When science
- >explains something it passes from dynamic to static. Morality
- >comes in since it is wrong to try to hold back the dynamic using
- >the static.
-
- All the more reason to not get ideas about science from Mr. Pirsig.
- Fire, water, earth and air is just about as plausable and as helpful.
-
- *Warning*, personal value-laden commentary about Mr. Pirsig approaching...
-
- He is an idiot.
-
- dale bass
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