Thanks Ron, I liked it too. But a smile from X Acto is like a spring in my step.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > jOHN, > Great post. > Ron > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: John Carl <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, March 21, 2010 3:38:28 PM > Subject: [MD] The Courtship and Marriage of Sophie and Phil > > Royce lays out an argument for the basis of ethics in "the striving to be > both humane and reasonable at once". This struck me as fresh, somehow. > I've > always been beguiled by an English interpretation of Philo-Sophia, as the > "Love of Wisdom." This interpretation made sense to me as the striving for > wisdom, the getting of smartness, making intellectual attainment the goal. > What you value (love) is what is most important - thus wisdom is the point > of philosophy. > > > But really, is lonely wisdom all that great? Isn't that the cold ghost of > reason that Phaedrus pursued (in himself) and thrashed (with some help) and > we all recognize. > > What then has been missing from my normal understanding of Love of Wisdom, > my PhiloSophy? > > I've missed out on the the marriage of the two. Both together creating a > new entity that transcends both. The marriage of wisdom and Love produce > the Good - a healthy little family triad. > > So... what does that mean to me in experience? Well for the future, I'll > have to wait and see. For the present... all it means is I'm writing words > to the world from a certain ethical impetus to make sense and to make love > simultaneously. > > Maybe this is what y'all meant by equating Quality with Love as being too > "Hallmarky" I think it was dmb, who pointed me that one, so yeah, I get it > now what is meant. Love without wisdom is mushy, with no real structure or > "spine", in the same way wisdom without love is too stern and pointed and > angular. You gotta have both for a realization of the good. > > When I apply this wisdom to my past experience, I see a pattern of > disturbances where the harmonic unity was not maintained. Was I lacking > wisdom? Or was it love that was lacking? A combination of both, I > suppose. If I'd only cared more, I would have known better. If I'd known > better, I would have cared more. > > I've gone through so many friendships in my life, friendships that I > didn't > want to lose, friendships that broke apart for reasons I continually > explore. Seeking where the choices lay, working out what it means and why. > Intellectual understanding of why love goes. > > An impossible task. > > But since when has that ever stopped us? > 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/md/archives.html > > > > > 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/md/archives.html > 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/md/archives.html
