On Sunday, 6/27 at 8:31 PM, Craig wrote:
[Ham}
FUNDAMENTAL TENETS OF ESSENTIALISM:
1) Nothing comes from nothingness.
2) Nothing creates itself (i.e., brings itself into existence)
3) Existence is the appearance of differentiated otherness.
4) All appearance--including divisions, relations, and movement--
is the affect of an uncreated source.
5) The primary difference is the provisional separation of
proprietary sensibility from the undivided source.
6) Life is an individual experience the essence of which is
value-sensibility.
7) Cognizant awareness, feeling, knowledge, interpretation,
intellection, and realization are proprietary to the individual.
8) Experience is the objective representation of value realized.
9) Unrealized value does not exist.
10) Man is a "free agent" in that he has the innate capacity
to act in accordance with his proprietary value orientation.
11) All truth is relative. Access to "absolute truth" is inimical to
individual freedom.
12) Wisdom is not factual knowledge but the ability to realize
the value of experience.
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1) & 3) make no sense to me.
2) is an unknowable generalization. For any particular,
one of 3 cases hold: i) we find its source;
ii) we can't find a source & it doesn't have one;
iii) we can't find a source but it has one. We can't determine
which of the latter two is the case.
I see no reason to believe 4), 5) or 11).
8) is vague, as is "innate capacity" in 10).
It's not clear that factual knowledge is not also "the ability
to realize the value of experience" in 12).
From your comments I take it you believe that things either come from
nothing or create themselves; that there is no primary source; that
sensibility is not distinguished from objective reality; that absolute
truth is humanly accessible; and that the value of existence may be realized
through factual knowledge. You did not understand what I meant by existence
as "the appearance of differentiated otherness", and argue that we must
"find a source" (I assume empirically) in order to posit one.
Although you had no criticism of tenet #6 (Life is an individual experience
the essence of which is value-sensibility), you apparently don't believe
that experience is derived from (or a construct of) value. I find that
curious, inasmuch as Pirsig equated Value (Quality) with Experience, and
particular experiences are frequently referred to here as POVs.
Had I not known you to be an MoQist, I doubt that I could discern it from
the comments you provided.
Thanks, Craig.
--Ham
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