Ham:
The notion of "DQ/Tao erupting into consciousness" is
the weirdest explanation of intuition I've ever heard. As far as I'm
concerned, this epistemological argument is just more fodder for the
collectivist position.
Ron:
Essentialism states that finitude is attributed to value awareness.
therefore the finite self is an illusion, even by your own hand.
Ham:
Again I'm reminded of this statement by the leading objectivist of the
20th
century:
"The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as
a
collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An
agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average
drawn
upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The
primary
act - the process of reason - must be performed by each man alone. We
can
divide a meal among many men. We cannot digest it in a collective
stomach.
No man can use his lungs to breathe for another man. No man can use his
brain to think for another. All the functions of body and spirit are
private. They cannot be shared or transferred. "
--Ayn Rand, "For the New Intellectual
Ron:
Your whole case revolves on Aristotelian logic which MoQ diverts from.
this is why things are not matching up. You may not level collectivism
because it stems from this logic, a logic that MoQ transcends.
Lets speak essentially, Essence is only limited by value sensibility
which creates the self-other dichotomy. But self- other is a
manifestation
of the absoluteness of Essence, in fact reality is a manifestation of
Essence, which is the negate of nothingness. There fore your "Free
agent"
can not be absolutely free can it? the only absolute is Essence.
finitude is created by value awareness of an absolute Essence which is
the negate of nothingness. No absolute "free agent" is possible in your
metaphysic.
I think it's a case of the pot calling the kettle collective.
thanks Ham
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