Hi Mark,
My interpretation of the individual's place in the MOQ hierarchy differs from
yours.
On 31 Oct 2010 at 8:54, 118 wrote:
I[Mark]
Free market support points to individual freedom. For this reason, I
believe your answer to X's question and the subject matter would be that you
value the individual (or biological level) as having the highest quality.
One doesn't have to choose of course, and the question is simply an
effector itself (let's call it the X factor). In this interpretation of
your responses, I would have to agree with you. The individual is not
subordinate to society or intellect as MoQ suggests with the hierarchy.
This would be similar to the trunk of a plant not being subordinate to the
forest and flowers on one side, and the roots on the other. It comprises
the individual component, and shines from its own merit.
[Platt]
In the past I have argued that the Intellectual Level should be properly
renamed the Individual Level The reason is quite direct: only individuals are
capable of creating intellectual patterns. A new idea is generated by a single
person at a distinct place and time, not by collectives.
Of course, individuals occur at all levels, whether an individual atom
(inorganic), germ (biological) or nation (social). But, as this site and all
idea interchange demonstrates.intellectual patterns emerge not from groups but
from individual minds. Furthermore, just as no two individuals have the exact
same DNA and no two have the exact same values, no two have the exact same
ideas. (At the lower levels, differences between individuals are indistinct.)
There are other points to make, but enough for now. For me, individual freedom
fosters creation of intellectual patterns as well as the free expression
thereof. As Pirsig says, individual rights like freedom of speech, of the
press, of religion, etc., all idea protections, " -- established the supremacy
of the intellectual order over the social order," i.e, individual freedom
trumps social conformity and reigns at the highest moral level.
Platt.
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