Thank you Ham, but I have recently received your book. Unfortunately
I haven't read it yet, and maybe I should have waited to ask the
question. I hope to read it later this week. But meanwhile I have
another question. At what point in its long evolutionary history
were human's granted the privileged position of having autonomous
choice? Was it planned for when they were much less than human? Was
it part of a plan in their earliest stages, when they were just amphibians?
Marsha
At 12:41 PM 2/3/2008, you wrote:
>Hi Marsha --
>
>
>
> > May I ask how performing functions for the purpose of a primary
> > source is freedom?
>
>Any process or function in actualized existence may be understood as serving
>the purpose of Essence. However--and this is the point missed by my
>critiquers--man's choices are autonomous. As an entity detached from the
>primary source, man has the capacity to make choices that are independent of
>causal laws, genetic predispositions, or instinctual tendencies.
>
>Thus, man is free to investigate the principles of nature and apply them to
>the enhancement of his own comfort and productivity, to express his values
>and thoughts in original works of art and music, and to establish civilized
>communities built on his own morality and belief systems. No other creature
>is endowed.with man's value sensibility and freedom of choice. Man is the
>agent of value, the Choicemaker of his world.
>
>Why is why it annoys me when I continue to see the individual reduced to an
>"abstracted pattern" or altogether ignored in this forum, along with freedom
>and self-determination.
>
>Best regards,
>Ham
>
>P.S. Please send me your mailing address off-line so I can mail you the
>"book".
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social and intellectual, static patterns of value.
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