[Marsha]
"What the Metaphysics of Quality adds to James' pragmatism and his
radical empiricism is the idea that the primal reality from which
subjects and objects spring is value. By doing so it seems to unite
pragmatism and radical empiricism into a single fabric. Value, the
pragmatic test of truth, is also the primary empirical experience.
The Metaphysics of Quality says pure experience is value. Experience
which is not valued is not experienced. The two are the same. This is
where value fits. Value is not at the tail-end of a series of
superficial scientific deductions that puts it somewhere in a
mysterious undetermined location in the cortex of the brain. Value is
at the very front of the empirical procession."
(LILA, Chapter 29)
[Krimel]
The problem with this is that Values are perceived. They are our emotions,
Being moved by our values is a response to our emotions. I think it is bad
mojo to claim that emotion is the primary stuff of reality.
Also I think it is very different to say that an understanding of subject,
objects or anything else spring from Value and quite another to have crap
just popping in out of nowhere as a product of experience.
I would totally agree that emotional commitment is required for decision
making but that does not make it the primal metaphysical existent.
It is indeed on the leading edge of experience. We do not have enough time
to respond to the environment on the basis of reason. If our species had
begun that way, our line would have died out long ago. Rational thinking is
a secondary process that is added to the capacities of primates of our
lineage. It serves to evaluate, refine and improve actions based purely on
experience or emotion. Rational concepts are secondary but mighty useful.
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