In my humble opinion, American Pragmatism can be made better by replacing 'truth' with inorganic, biological, social and intellectual static patterns of value.
On Dec 3, 2012, at 2:22 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > "... 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. > > > > > ___ 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
