"... A primary occupation of every level of evolution seems to be offering
freedom to lower levels of evolution. But as the higher level gets more
sophisticated it goes off on purposes of its own. Once this independent nature
of the levels of static patterns of value is understood a lot of puzzles get
solved. The first one is the usual puzzle of value itself. In a subject-object
metaphysics, value has always been the most vague and ambiguous of terms. What
is it? When you say the world is composed of nothing but value, what are you
talking about?
"Phaedrus thought this was why no one before had ever seemed to have come up
with the idea that the world is primarily value. The word is too vague. The
'value' that holds a glass of water together and the 'value' that holds a
nation together are obviously not the same thing. Therefore to say that the
world is nothing but value is just confusing, not clarifying.
"Now this vagueness is removed by sorting out values according to levels of
evolution. The value that holds a glass of water together is an inorganic
pattern of value. The value that holds a nation together is a social pattern of
value. They are completely different from each other because they are at
different evolutionary levels. And they are completely different from the
biological pattern that can cause the most sceptical of intellectuals to leap
from a hot stove. These patterns have nothing in common except the historic
evolutionary process that created all of them. But that process is a process of
value evolution. Therefore the name 'static pattern of values' applies to all."
(RMP, 'LILA', Chapter 12)
Marsha:
Yes: "Therefore the name 'static pattern of values' applies to all." Using
this vernacular leads one to naturally "examine intellectual realities
(patterns) the same way he examines paintings of in an art gallery, not with an
effort to find out which one is the ‘real’ painting, but simply to enjoy and
keep those that are of value." (It's not intellectual static truths.). RMP
has it just right.
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