All: David Brooks has a column in today's New York Times entitled "The End of Philosophy," parts of which might have been written by someone very familiar with the MOQ. For example:
"Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers embrace a different view of morality. In this view, moral thinking is more like aesthetics. As we look around the world, we are constantly evaluating what we see. Seeing and evaluating are not two separate processes. They are linked and basically simultaneous. "As Steven Quartz of the California Institute of Technology said during a recent discussion of ethics sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, "Our brain is computing value at every fraction of a second. Everything that we look at, we form an implicit preference. Some of those make it into our awareness; some of them remain at the level of our unconscious, but ... what our brain is for, what our brain has evolved for, is to find what is of value in our environment." The rest of the column continues in the same vein with typically liberal emphasis on the social values of co-operation, empathy and altruism. (Brooks who advertises himself as a conservative is really a closet liberal.) I think you may enjoy reading how close Brooks comes to acknowledging what we have known for years. His basic mistake is in the title, "The End of Philosophy." If someone would introduce him to ZMM and Lila he might well change the title to, "From a New Metaphysics a New Reality." You can get the column at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07Brooks.html?_r=1 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/
