> Nick previously: > I already went over this. Maybe you missed it. Pursuit of happiness is from > ancient greece. Happiness in ancient greece is not the way logical positivist > ulitarians define happy (they define it as a biological pleasure). > Happiness before > the advent of ulitarian logical positivists who redefined reality > vacuous of value, this happiness > when value was understood is translated from ancient greece as > "flourishing". Flourishing > means happiness, well-being, quality. Not all flourishings are > natural rights. Courage is > a virtue (a flourishing) but that is not law reviewable. > What I said above is this and I already said it in a post to Marsha: > Life (the birth-death cycle) is not the ultimate end or else there would be no > way to make a distinction between a dog, logical positivist, or > Pirsig. Each of them > are life (person). Each of them are on the birth-death cycle (also > definition of life). Reality > for rational humans is more than mere survival. The Ultimate telos > end is flourishing. Due > to flourishing we can define with flourishing, in other words, we > can define with quality the > distinctions between these three birth-death cycles. We can say > that Pirsig is flourishing > more than a logical positivist. We argue this in many ways. ZMM > and Lila are arguments > that Pirsig was onto something of a better quality than logical > positivists. Quality goes further > than just looking at the person. A virtuous person is pursuing > happiness. A virtuous person, > in other words, is pursuing quality (excellence). > that's the context in which I wrote that
> Ron: > Then if you would please, what are the earmarks of "excellence"? Nick: Well you see it you know it. Do you see excellence in a logical positivist or in Pirsig? Nick -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com 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/
