Hi Platt
Just a minor point - why do equate reason (or "reason alone") with SOM.
Surely reason is an intellectual POV and not a whole metaphysical system.
Horse
Platt Holden wrote:
Hi Chris,
I do not disagree that a lower level pattern may be overlaid and
controlled
by a higher one, all I'm saying is that intellect doesn't control the
social level only because we have democracy. Intellect controls the social
level when intellectual values are always more central than social ones. I
can imagine that when everyone within a democracy let's rationality
supersede social level values every time they are in conflict - that would
be the ideal state for the intellectual level.
Two problems with relying on intellectual level rationality.1) Reason alone
(SOM) doesn't provide a basis for moral judgments. 2) "So convenient it is
to be a rational creature, since it enables us to find or make a reason for
everything one has a mind to do." -- Benjamin Franklin. Obviously 1 and 2
are related. Example: In the current presidential contest there is no lack
of reasons on either side to cast one's vote.
Platt
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