--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Most mature, intelligent, college educated adults are > in stage 5. They can take multiple perspectives > regarding the same thing and understand several > courses of action. They see the value of social laws, > but also recognize there are individual situations and > circumstances where these laws need to be > transgressed. Culties are in stage 4 and think they > are in stage 6. By the way, MMY's behavior puts him in > stage 1(moral reasoning dictated by avoidance of > punishment). Go figure.
I figure you're in a bad mood, Peter. "Stage 1 Punishment/Obedience - Consequentialism. This stage is characterized by avoidance of punishment and unquestioning deference to power as values in themselves. Simple Hedonism." You think MMY gives "unquestioning deference to power"? And how do you reconcile his dictum "Don't do anything you think might be wrong" with stage 1? Sounds to me like stage 5--"a recognition of the relative nature of personal values"--if not stage 6, or even Ken Wilber's stage 7, "where univeral concern for humanity is combined with a concern for all nature--identification is broadened to the universe itself, care is held for all nature in a manner such that one cares for the universe around him just as another cares for his own body" (which could conceivably involve taking actions that appear to demonstrate lack of concern for individuals or individual segments of humanity). He does tend to run the organization as if he thought its personnel were at the lower levels, though. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
