Hi Platt and MD
On 30 Mar 2000, at 11:49, Platt Holden wrote:
> Do we have-- like our physical senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and
> smell--an inborn, instinctive moral sense?
Yes, but not in the way you reference it here. The above senses are physical senses (as
you say) and are tuned for use in that respect. Value/Quality is not confined by the merely
physical. I would see a sense of Value/Quality more in the Chomskyan sense of innate
language ability. Flexible and Dynamic. Certain aspects of our 'sense' of Value/Quality are
shaped by our interaction with and experience of the world.
This is not to deny that a sense of Value/Quality is any less valid than the physical senses,
but of an entirely different order. It may be that a sense of Value/Quality is more 'primary'
than the physical senses and in some instances precedes the physical senses.
Also, the physical senses act at a particular level (biological) whereas a sense of quality
would operate across a broader spectrum, encompassing but not limited to the
physical/biological.
Does that make sense? :)
> How many of us here in this group believe that our bodies, before sensing
> anything else, sense values? That the nature of our experience is primarily
> moral?
But if reality consists of value, value and nothing but value then logically we would HAVE to
sense value before anything else.What else is there?
Horse
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