Metaphysics of Value

The Metaphysics of Value, developed by Robert Pirsig, is a participatory (or 'P2P') epistemology because it goes beyond the subject-object separation:

"Robert Pirsig, in his books “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and “Lila sets out a case that Western civilisation has long been under the thrall of an artificial division between “subject and “object. He proposed that the primary reality is “Quality which is both formless and indefinable. It is not a “thing but an event at which the subject becomes aware of the object and before he distinguishes it: ie a non-intellectual awareness or “pre-intellectual reality. Quality is the basis of both subject and object. The bad “Quality sensation one gets from sitting on a hot stove leads to a consciousness both of oneself – the subject – and the stove – the object. He went on to distinguish between “Static and “Dynamic Quality, where the static order of one level forms the precondition for the establishment of a “higher level." (http://www.moq.org/forum/chriscook/ifnotglobal.html)

The Metaphysics of Quality site is at http://www.moq.org/