On Oct 23, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Matt Kundert wrote: > > 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.
Marsha: Science might reject the physical responses accompanying jealousy, fear or hate from biasing the interpretation or presentation of data. > When did biology reject sex? Marsha: Biology includes the study of 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
