Hi Ham, Leslie invented the term 'Axiarcism' to suggest that value (axia) is the beginning (arche). (The term is first introduced in his ‘The Theory that the World Exists Because It Should’, American Philosophical Quarterly Vol.7 No.4 (Oct. 1970) I've used this idea in my University of Liverpool Interdisciplinary Forum presentation abstract to support the moq. The moq is a version of axiarcism i argue, and the best version in my opinion. I've been corresponding with Leslie in Canada. Ian G has the details of a rough version of my abstract.
In fact, my current MA essay for metaphysics discusses if axiarcism challenges theistic explanations for creation. From Leslie's CV: “Value and Existence” (Basil Blackwell: Oxford, 1979): an investigation of the neoplatonist suggestion that God, instead of being a person, is the world’s ethical requiredess, a factor which is itself creatively successful, and of the world-picture which this suggestion appears to involve. “Infinite Minds: a philosophical cosmology” (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, paperback 2003, at the Clarendon Press, and Oxford University Press worldwide). Defends an updated Spinozistic pantheism. The Anthropic principle is not required for axiarcism because it may be suggested there is bountiful empirical evidence to support the postulation that value pre-exists: 1. Existence. 2. Therefore, humans to aesthetically appreciate values because they are values. 3. Therefore humans are values resonating with other values. Love, Mark 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
