>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 25 14:32:02 1999 >Received: (from majordomo@localhost) > by mill.venus.co.uk (8.8.6/8.8.6) id WAA06338 > for moq_discuss-outgoing; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:29:41 GMT >Received: from mail4.svr.pol.co.uk (mail4.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.211]) > by mill.venus.co.uk (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA06333 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:29:38 GMT >Received: from modem-88.nickel.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.13.216] helo=default) > by mail4.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) > id 10G9IL-0005gR-00 > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:30:13 +0000 >From: "Struan Hellier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: MD Zen and the intellect >Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:30:32 -0000 >Message-ID: <000001be610e$74abb8c0$d80d883e@default> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Priority: 3 (Normal) >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 >In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Importance: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Dear Struan, You said: Even hedonism presupposes the morality of freedom! Relativism is >thus restricted to the denigrated status of a tool that many in power utilise to forward their own >morality and, more often, to the layman who falls for it. > >My only contribution here is to point out that moral relativism may be the professed position of >many, but on analysis it is not their true position. One then has to delve deeper in order to >ascertain what their metaphysics really is. I agree! This being the case I wonder what makes the ' objective >moral principles' Platt offers any better than the objective moral principles of other philosophies. By their fruits, ye may determine, Struan, what is better! >More importantly (and following a question Rob forwarded) I would be interested to know of any moral >decisions anyone has made which have been decided in reference to a "reality-based rational >framework" of a MoQ in contradistinction to being rationalised by said framework after the event. How about the example of Marcus Aurelius, Struan, and his decisions of, Right Conduct or Arete, based upon a " reality-based rational framework " or MOQ, framework, that was determinative for him, OR Struan, that his actions, therefore, could be predicted, prior to an event, based upon his framework? Struan, please just read �his " To Himself ", and you may begin to understand what I mean. Best regards, Paul. > >Struan > >------------------------------------------ >Struan Hellier >< mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >"All our best activities involve desires which are disciplined and >purified in the process." >(Iris Murdoch) > > > >MOQ Homepage - http://www.moq.org >Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com MOQ Homepage - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
