Hi Ron/SA Do you think moral imagination plays a role?
David M ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Kulp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Values > > [SA] > > By applying the intellectual level, and each subsequent level we > would be wisely applying morals the moq would state. By applying > dynamic quality and thus, clearing the intellectual level to new > open-minded, creative thoughts is morally helpful. > So, a kind of forgetting, the empty tea cup, is very moral. I > didn't see wiki covering this anywhere. > > [Ron] > I sniped this bit from the opening paragraph, : > "The semantics of ethics divides naturally into descriptivism > and non-descriptivism. The former position advocates the idea that > prescriptive language (including ethical > commands and duties) is a subdivision of descriptive language and has > meaning in virtue of the same kind of properties as descriptive > propositions, whereas the latter contends that ethical propositions are > irreducible > in the sense that their meaning cannot be explicated sufficiently in > terms of truth-conditions." > (Ron: A kind of "not knowing") > > "Correspondingly, the epistemology of ethics divides into cognitivism > and non-cognitivism; a distinction that > is often perceived as equivalent to that between descriptivists and > non-descriptivists. Non-cognitivism may > be understood as the claim that ethical claims reach beyond the scope > of human cognition or as the (weaker) > claim that ethics is concerned with action rather than with knowledge." > [Ron] > SA, I took this to mean what you are stating, that value may be > concerned with action rather than knowledge > and "By applying dynamic quality and thus, clearing the intellectual > level to new open-minded, creative > thoughts is morally helpful." thereby your statement supports a > non-cognitive view. > but, I suppose if you want to take me literally with the "seem to cover > all the bases" you could probably > find other aspects which are not mentioned, so you are correct, it does > not > cover all the bases, but it does provide a pretty wide field for usefull > purposes of comprehension. > > woods > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ____________ > Catch up on fall's hot new shows on Yahoo! TV. Watch previews, get > listings, and more! > http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/3658 > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
