Ron, It seems to me, what intellect values most of all is objectivity. Isn't that the scientific dream? The illusory pursuit of what is true beyond my pre-conceived ideas?
Another way of saying it is that what knowing values most, is more knowing. We build intellectual frameworks of understanding that we might understand and encapsulate more - an infinite process of analogy, metaphor and interpretation. Which is why I believe the 4th level should not be confusingly termed a "level" as it has no definable upper bounds. But this process should be understood to include more than rationality - we also encapsulate and metaphorize with music, painting, dreaming and all kinds of artistic and mythic expression, which is why the 4th level should not be termed simply "intellectual". posits John the the Roycean On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 6:15 AM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ron: > > Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which > guarantees the others. > - Aristotle > > Andre: > Hi Ron, you know I am thick and I tried to give this quotation a place, a > context to the stuff you pasted below your post about the discussion with > Mary, dmb and my self ...and cannot find it. Care to elaborate? > > > Ron: > Mary was asking what does the intellectual level value. Courage is a fairly > good answer for the reasons > Aristotle mentioned. > Most Primarily, the intellectual level values the social level. That > objectivism does not, highlights > the problem of Bo's SOL. > > > > 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
