Marsha quoted from Lila: "The Metaphysics of Quality says that science's empirical rejection of biological and social values is not only rationally correct, it is also morally correct because the intellectual patterns of science are of a higher evolutionary order than the old biological and social patterns."
Matt: I'm wondering what it even means for science to reject, say, biological values. When did biology reject sex? > From: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:33:58 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] The Hero's journey > > > Hi Dmb, > > > On Oct 23, 2011, at 3:20 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > > "It's been necessary since before the time of Socrates to REJECT THE > > PASSIONS, the emotions, in order to free the rational mind for an > > understanding of nature's order which was as yet unknown. Now it's time to > > further an understanding of nature's order by RE-ASSIMILATING THOSE > > PASSIONS which were originally fled from. The passions, the emotions, the > > affective domain of man's consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. > > The CENTRAL part." > > You quoted from ZAMM, but this is from LILA: > > "The Metaphysics of Quality says that science's empirical rejection of > biological and social values is not only rationally correct, it is also > morally correct because the intellectual patterns of science are of a higher > evolutionary order than the old biological and social patterns." > > I'm not sure we want to re-assimlate the biological/social passions and > biases into the Intellectual Level. > > What do you think? > > > Marsha > > ___ > > > 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
