Hi Ron, > > Ron: > > How does this explain your stance? Quality is morality, morality is > > reality > > Reality is experience. Your experience in particular. So it is your > > opinion > > On what is superior. > > > Platt: > My experience has much in common with yours, otherwise we couldn't be > conversing. Everyone has opinions. I happen to agree with Pirsig's about the > moral superiority of the higher levels over the lower. > > Ron: > But what does that mean exactly? Given how we just defined superiority, > Moral, and reality as the same?
It means exactly that it is more moral for a doctor to kill a germ than a germ to kill a doctor, and it is more moral for an idea to kill a society than a society to kill an idea. > > Ron: > > That reality is superior to reality? > > If, by your own words morality equals reality then your statement is > > contradictory and makes little sense. > > Or is it reality is superior > > To human perception of it. That makes sense. > > > Platt: > That makes no sense to me. Please explain. > > Ron: > > Reality is superior to the human perception of it. How can reality be superior to the human perception of it when human experience is reality and when reality includes the superiority of the higher levels over the lower? > > Ron: > > No, I am not denying superiority from my own opinion, > > But I realize that it is all that it is, my own. It serves > > Great pragmatic purpose and great care must be taken > > To develop it. > > Fine. We agree. > > > > > Ron: > > You are doing it now defending your opinion of superiority. > > Platt, if you would, define your superiority less what it refers to. > > This might be a good start. > > Platt: > I don't see how you can define anything without reference to something > else. > > Ron: > Exactly my point about superiority. But, I thought your point was that in reality nothing is superior to anything else. Have I mistaken your view? Platt 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/
