Hi Steve, Marsha and all,
Between "external duty, and internal duty" seems to encompass everything. Perhaps, viewing emotions as DQ places them beyond internal duty? When emotions are defined SQ, they cease to be emotions. Emotions cannot be defined as DQ since DQ in itself is indefinable. Emotions are a different name in biology for DQ. Joe On 7/13/11 8:14 AM, "Steven Peterson" <peterson.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Marsha, > > Marsha: > I just don't get the insistence on MY free-will. As far as the > ethical considerations, these statements make the most sense to me. >> >> "Dharma, like rta, means 'what holds together.' It is the basis of all order. >> It equals righteousness. It is the ethical code. It is the stable condition >> which gives man perfect satisfaction. >> >> "Dharma is duty. It is not external duty which is arbitrarily imposed by >> others. It is not any artificial set of conventions which can be amended or >> repealed by legislation. Neither is it internal duty which is arbitrarily >> decided by one's own conscience. Dharma is beyond all questions of what is >> internal and what is external. Dharma is Quality itself, the principle of >> 'rightness' which gives structure and purpose to the evolution of all life >> and to the evolving understanding of the universe which life has created." >> >> (LILA, Chapter 30) >> >> So MU. > > > Steve: > NIce job digging up this quote. I love how it specifically backs our > point that dropping internal/external considerations like SOM free > will/determism do not negate moral structure and purpose. It is > irrelevant to duty--what dmb surely means by moral responsibility. > > Best, > Steve > 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
