Gav, Very nice post!!! Your reference to the difference between descriptive & prescriptive makes an excellent point.
Marsha At 09:17 AM 7/21/2007, you wrote: >isn't the idea of limited freedom, oxymoronic? > >the nature of the moral hierarchy of the MOQ requires >some careful explanation, lest it becomes that which >it preaches against: an explicit moral code, ie an >ideology. > >this is not what the MOQ is for. the MOQ is a >descriptive, rather than a prescriptive tool. > >the dynamic/static code trumps the static codes. the >dynamic/static code simply states the moral priority >of the dynamic. the dynamic refers to unified >experience - no subject/object distinctions. > >the MOQ helps us understand our own psychological >evolution. it allows us to understand how and why >values conflict with one another. it leads, if >followed carefully, to the realization that a process >of elimination, through a kind of hegelian dialectic, >will lead to the finality of one single virtue: this >virtue is the dynamic. this is the purpose of >intellect. > >all explicit moral codes are necesssary but temporary >encumberances. they are meant to be incorporated and >then died to. this is the hero's journey. this is the >journey of all of us. > >the free individual has no need of any explicit >morals; he neither recognises nor offers any. his life >is one with nature, one with all, and in unity there >logically can be no conflict. conflict is the reason >for morals. > 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/
