Quoting Christoffer Ivarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey Happy People. I Found this this morning, going through old MOQ stuff, > from an early Lila Squad period. I'd like to ask all of you, but > particularly those of you who have been at this from the beginning if there > is anything in this that you no longer agree with?
Looks good to me. Nothing here I wouldn't agree with today as I did many moons ago. Platt > 1. Quality. Quality is reality. Quality is the ethical principle of the > good. Thus reality is a moral order. Quality, like reality, is known to us > as awareness. As such, it is impossible to define. > > 2. Morality. Morality is a synonym for Quality. Thus reality is a moral > order. A phenomenon is considered moral, or high Quality, to the extent that > it advances freedom. > > 3. Value. Value is a synonym for Quality. Value encompasses what are > usually known as causation and substance. Value is understood through the > sense of value. > > 4. Dynamic Quality and static quality. There are many ways to divide > Quality but the best way is into patterns of Dynamic and static value or > experience. Dynamic Quality is pure experience; static quality is filtered > experience. Dynamic Quality creates the world; static quality preserves it. > Dynamic Quality is more aesthetic than static quality. Neither Dynamic nor > static quality can survive without the other. > > 5. Static levels. Quality became manifest in our world by an evolutionary > sequence of Dynamic Quality Events. Left in the wake of these events were > four static levels of evolution -- inorganic, biological, social and > intellectual. Each level is a static pattern of Quality, organized and > governed by its own moral laws -- the laws of physics, biology, culture and > reason respectively. > > 6. Static awareness. Each higher level evolved from the lower level but > has become a discrete level. From the point of view of any level it is only > possible to evaluate phenomena at that level. > > 7. Static dominance. Because each lower level is unable to evaluate the > other levels, it considers itself to be the most moral and strives to > dominate the others. > > 8. Static morality. The levels at a higher stage of evolution are more > moral than levels below. Intellectual patterns take moral precedence over > social patterns, social patterns over biological and biological patterns > over inorganic. > > 9. Dependency. Higher qualities depend on lower qualities for survival. > Thus a higher quality can only dominate a lower one in so far as it does not > endanger its stability. > > 10. Evolution. The universe is evolving away from low quality and towards > high quality. > > 11. Truth.Truth is an intellectual value pattern. There is no single > truth, only high quality and low quality truths. > > 12. Self. The self is undivided Quality, encompassing both Dynamic and > static patterns. As with Quality, the self is both one and many. > > ------ > > Regards > > Chris > > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
