NOTA BENE!! In the said example above intellects S/O value (objectivity-over-subjectivity) is plain to see, so plain that I wonder how anyone can avoid seeing it. Just as obvious is emotions as the social "expression" and reason as intellect's, and in light of the dependency issue one sees emotions' role as what underpins reason. Why you consider this aspect of the MOQ as imperfect is very strange.
DM: I agree that SOM, which implies only the distinction, generally becomes the value "objectivity-over-subjectivity" but this is not true of the great German idealist tradition that is the other way round and has a great deal to say about reason and is more the concern of European post-modernism than the "objectivity-over-subjectivity" that is really the value of modern secular techno-scientific society. I think that your formual intellect=SOM I find very odd when I have been educated mainly in the German idealist tradition in the humanities but with dualism turned materialist in the sciences. I agrre very much with Pirsig with respect to science, but there is a big tradition in the European humanities (also some US pragmatism) that is not based on the "objectivity-over-subjectivity" value. We have been happy in Europe to talk alot ion the humanties about the subjective-experiencing-self over the objective-groundless-limited-sciences. regards David M MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_focus/ MF Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_focus follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/mf/subscribe.html
