[John] > my inclination is that all language arises from intellectual > patterns rather than the other way around.
Pirsig said the intellectual level arose from the rituals of the third [institutional] level. If you haven’t already read it, I guarantee once you start reading Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Investigations” you won’t set it down until you have a new appreciation of language. [John] > In a shipwreck, there's a rule "women and children first". If I > follow that rule it shows self denial wherein I certainly don't > flourish as an individual. ”Flourishing” has too much connotation of the biological. “Self-fulfilling” would be a better term. Mother Theresa was self-sacrificing insofar as she put the biological and social well-being of others before herself, but was self-fulfilling with respect to the values she chose. Whether fulfilling your highest values is good, depends among other things, on the quality of your values. Craig 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/
