Hey Ian,
Ian said:
My view is that this "ambiguity" - a paradoxical aspect - is
its strength. When the "as if" telos is added to a more
reductionist Darwinian take on causation, then moral
behaviour is all too predictable, now and in future - that
doesn't make it uniform. The problem is most people still
look to SOMist arguments to justify their predictions - and
are surprised when they fail, as any SOMist argument
containing a paradox will.
Matt:
A good illustration of the aesthetic attitude towards
metaphysics. I'm curious, though: if both the MoQ and
SOM contain paradox, as is suggested by the above, why
in the MoQ is it a strength and in SOM a cause for failure?
Is that the big moral lesson in the MoQ--live with paradox?
Why do we need to live with paradox? What view of the
world suggests that the world is irradicably paradoxical,
suggesting to us that nothing but a paradoxical
metaphysics will please us or prove useful in describing it?
Indeed, what's so paradoxical about ambiguity?
Matt
p.s. I don't know what you mean when you say that
moral behavior, once the telos is added back in, "is all too
predictable."
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