Hi Andre 27 Jan.:
[Bo] before > The 4th level as the VALUE of the S/O distinction I hold as > self-evident as the American Founding Fathers did the equality of all > people. Andre: > The founding fathers were inspired and guided by the philosophy of John > Locke, who based his philosophy on the scientific discoveries of Isaac > Newton with whom he shared a close friendship. The philosophy, as well > as the scientific foundations upon which it rests has been found > wanting. There are internal contradictions, blatant misconceptions and > severe problems found. These were exposed by the theory of relativity > and subsequent investigations at the quantum level...where it was found > that nothing is self-evident. Self- evident as analogous to 'common- > sense' which, as Einstein has pointed out in Pirsig's book is a set of > prejudices formed before the age of eighteen. I should have limited myself to say that "The 4th. level ... etc." is self- evident from MOQ's premises, but trust me never to know when to stop. The point is - as you say - that from intellect's somish, scientific objective view the equality of all humans is self-evident. And you need not lecture me about the failures of intellect in its its metaphysical - SOM -l role, but as self-evident is it that we must not jettison the VALUE of the objective attitude. Here the SOL interpretation (intellect- as-the-static-value-of-the-S/O-distinction) does the trick. Regrettably you did not understand, but a MOQ that abandons rationality because the New Physics (by Relativity & Quantum Mech) has revealed that the "self-evidence" of SOM (in the its metaphysical capacity) is proved wrong .... that this is seen as a pretext to join some woolly mysticism. Well, this is the drunkard falling into the right side ditch. The academicals - DMB - is the same drunkard falling into the left side ditch. While the this sole sober SOList walks steadily down the middle of the road. Bodvar 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/
