Just a quick one, regarding the "physical senses" : how many of those do
members of this list suppose we have? - if they're so concrete, we'd surely
be able to enumerate them fairly easily, wouldn't we?.......
All right, I'll own up: it's a trick question. Nobody has ever been able to
arrive at a consensus as to how many senses we have, any more than they have
been able to arrive at how many "instincts" we have. It's a hornets' nest,
this.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Horse" <horse@wasted.demon.nl>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: 31 March 2000 01:40
Subject: Re: MD Moral Sense?
> 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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