Hi Ant, At 80 my chronology of schooling is muddled.
I went to a Catholic seminary for six years from the 8th grade studying Latin, Greek etc., to become a Catholic priest. Metaphysics was the highest course in philosophy after 4 years of logic and physics. I spent my high- school years and two years of college at the seminary. I did not continue to the next level and was never ordained as a Catholic priest. >From the seminary I went to the Dominican Order to became a monk. ST. Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican. I studied his thinking in philosophy as well as the writings of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine. After 2 years of study I was released from the monastery. I spent two more years to get a BA degree in philosophy at a local Junior college. I left studying philosophy and became a plumber to support my wife and family. It seems philosophy has not left me! Joe On 3/17/13 3:29 PM, "Ant McWatt" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Joe Maurer stated March 17th 2013: > > >> In the theory of knowledge I find no place for abstraction. Direct >> experience of hierarchical existence reveals limits to conceptualization. >> >> I accept reality as levels in existence, evolution. I am in favor of a >> concept of hierarchical evolutionary reality through limits to the >> hierarchical structure. I can't jump on my horse and ride off in all >> directions. >> >> My metaphysical education was the study of SOM. > > Ant McWatt comments: > > Joe, > > Firstly, I'd be interested in hearing more details of this "metaphysical > education" of yours! > > > Joe Maurer continued March 17th 2013: > >> DQ/SQ is more readily >> understood as indefinable individuality, definable reality than >> subject/object division. DQ the indefinable manifests in evolution in >> existence of indefinable/definable reality. > > Ant McWatt comments: > > Secondly, I can largely follow what you're saying here Joe except for your use > of the term "individuality" in the phrase "indefinable individuality" > (especially in the context of Dynamic Quality). It's unclear to me why you > didn't use the term "reality" instead (so the term read as "indefinable > reality"). > > > Best wishes, as ever, > > Ant > > > > . > > > > > 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
