Latching was what was needed all right. Historically every effort to unite
science
and ethics has been a disaster. You can't paste a moral system on top of a
pile of
amoral objective matter. The amoral objective matter never needs this paste
job.
It always sloughs it off as superfluous.
But the Metaphysics of Quality doesn't permit this slough-off. It says, first
of all,
that 'amoral objective matter' is a low-grade form of morality. No slough-off
is possible.
It states, second of all, that even if matter weren't a low grade form of
morality there
still would be no metaphysical need to show how morals are derived from it.
With static
patterns of value divided into four systems, conventional moral patterns have
almost
nothing to do with inorganic or biological nature. These moral patterns are
superimposed
upon inorganic nature the way novels are superimposed upon computers. They are
more
commonly opposed to biological patterns than they are supportive of them.
And that is the key to the whole thing.
What the evolutionary structure of the Metaphysics of Quality shows is that
there
is not just one moral system. There are many. In the Metaphysics of Quality
there's
the morality called the 'laws of nature,' by which inorganic patterns triumph
over
chaos; there is a morality called the 'law of the jungle' where biology
triumphs
over the inorganic forces of starvation and death; there's a morality where
social
patterns triumph over biology, 'the law;' and there is an intellectual
morality,
which is still struggling in its attempts to control society. Each of these
sets o
f moral codes is no more related to the other than novels are to flip-flops.
What is today conventionally called 'morality' covers only one of these sets of
moral codes, the social-biological code. In a subject-object metaphysics this
single social-biological code is considered to be a minor, 'subjective,'
physically
non-existent part of the universe. But in the Metaphysics of Quality all these
sets
of morals, plus another Dynamic morality are not only real, they are the whole
thing.
Lila ch 13
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