[Marsha] These are from a man who cares about the MOQ: [Krimel] Perhaps he does, but who cares? Even this is shot through and through with his QualiGod, anthropomorphisms, chauvinism and twisted moral confusion. I have patiently argued these points with him as well and he shows no sign of understanding this either. He probably has more support among the faithful for this sort of thing and yes he is better at it, but anyone who finds themselves getting all cuddlely over this ought to consider where it leads.
-------------------------------------- Platt's Principles of the MOQ 1. The Quality Principle: Quality is simultaneously an immanent and transcendent moral force. It created and gave purpose to our world, motivated by the ethical principle of the Good, which is its essence. Quality is synonymous with morality and value. Thus, the world is primarily a moral order, consisting not of subjects (mental things) Principles of the Metaphysics of Quality and objects (material things) but patterns of value. 2. The Awareness Principle: The essence of quality is known to us as awareness without content: pure, unpatterned experience. As such, it's impossible to describe. Whenever we try, we end up describing what we are aware of, not awareness itself. 3. The Dynamic/static Principle: To explain the inexplicable, the Metaphysics of Quality divides quality into two parts, Dynamic and static. Dynamic Quality is the moral imperative to create; static quality is the moral imperative to survive. 4. The Levels Principle: 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 unique moral laws: the laws of physics, biology, culture, and reason, respectively. 5. The Awareness Hierarchy Principle: Each higher level evolved from and included the lower but expanded awareness. For example, the intellectual level can apprehend mathematical patterns that the lower levels cannot. Also, all levels possess, in addition to environmental awareness, an awareness of values. Even a lowly virus knows what's good for it. 6. The Moral Hierarchy Principle: Because higher levels are more aware, they are more moral than levels below. Intellectual patterns take moral precedence over social patterns, social patterns over biological, and biological patterns over inorganic. 7. The First Dominance Principle: Because a lower level is largely unaware of levels above it, it considers itself to be the most moral and strives to dominate other levels. What is moral and lawful at one level is often immoral and unlawful at another. For example, biological laws defy the laws of physics. 8. The Second Dominance Principle: Static patterns within levels that humans identify as entities are possessed by varying degrees of Quality depending on their affinity to the next higher or lower level. They often try to devour other patterns to enhance their own survival. This causes suffering, the negative face of Quality that drives the creative process. 9. The Dependency Principle: When a higher level attempts to assert its moral dominance over a lower level, it must be careful that it does not endanger the stability of the lower level on which it ultimately depends for survival. For example, if the intellect in its quest for freedom from social inhibitions causes social instability, intellect will suffer. 10. The Individual Principle: At the present stage of moral evolution, only living beings can respond to Dynamic Quality. Humans, composites of all four levels, are the most capable of responding. However, responses to and evaluations of Quality vary by individual because each has a different static pattern of life history. 11. The Truth Principle: Truth, an intellectual value pattern, is a species of Good. There's no single, exclusive truth, but those of high quality are empirical, logical, elegant, and brief. In any case, it's immoral for truth to be subordinated to social values. 12. The Freedom Principle: To create ever higher levels of awareness, Dynamic Quality strives for freedom from all static patterns. Freedom is the core value and highest Good in the Metaphysics of Quality. Thus, the best social and intellectual patterns are those that promote freedom consistent with maintaining the static patterns necessary for survival. 13. The Proof Principle: That reality is morality strikes most people as loony. But in denying that the world is a moral order, they have to employ moral judgment. They cannot refute that Quality is reality without asserting a value. And they will have to concede that it's impossible to live without assumptions of what is Good. For life requires action, action presupposes choice, choice presupposes purpose, and purpose presupposes values. 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/
