Thanks Oisin.
> Quality not only unifies these two intellectual
> categories, but transcends
> the whole mentality/metaphysics of subjects and
> objects altogether.
> Quality is preintellectual; "the sign and the
> instrument"
This is where the characterization of Quality leads me
to Deconstruction. Derrida defines the nature of
Deconstruction in this exact manner. Deconstruction
happens, quality happens. It can be observed but it
can't be defined. It is not a process, a thing, but it
is. Obviously, my comparison is gross, but I am here
to get some refinement on the distinctions.
I'm still not clear that some parts of "quality"
aren't in the mind. I can see where some of it is in
the world and some of it is in the mind. I just sense
that it's not clear enough at least for me. The brain
has the amazing ability to make horrific events into
meaning. Child abuse victims still have mechanisms
that make meaning out of what happened. They may be
unhappy mechanisms, but they enable the child to live
with some sense of meaning.
There is some amazing "love" coming out of the
crashes. I don't mean the mindless patriotism; rather
people are being questioned about the meaning of their
lives and they are choosing "themselves." They faced
the abyss, albeit on CNN, but it is the abyss we all
face everyday: death. America is so wealthy we all
live in neuroses because we are unable to touch death
on a daily basis (we know death is there but we
incessantly touch our wallet or purse or whatever to
express the anxiety that we know in the back of our
minds). With this tragedy, at least for a little
while, we are all touching death on a daily basis, no
longer our wallets. And what happens?
My sister is a doctor in New York, a psychiatrist. She
was forced in the tragedy to tell a family that their
loved one was on the deceased list. That was not an
everyday job for her. Well she did it, and felt she
did not do it well. But, everyone around her gave her
their support, said she "did well", and she had this
outpouring of emotion in her self that that is how she
wanted to be loved all her life. The tragedy and death
of all these people created the closest sense of love
for her. Is that quality at work?
To me that is Love at work. Love is a negative field.
Not negative as in bad. But negative in the sense of a
magnetic field. Love absorbs all the evil thrown out
by those terrorists and transforms it. Love grounds
evil, love maintains, stands proudly against the
entropy of the world. Certainly, it happened in my
sister. Is quality, in the same manner, a negative
field? A sort of womb? An absorber of all things? Is
quality love? If so, isn't love in the domain of
humans only? Or more properly in mammals only?
Angus
--- "oisin@o-connell.net" <oisin@o-connell.net> wrote:
> >>>if you define quality as the
> bent of the mind to make good out of bad, I buy it.
> But if you define quality as something external to
> the
> mind, I don't see it. It's a trap of sorts. It's
> clear
> there is a bent towards goodness, but is that just
> an
> interpretation of the mind? Again, if quality is
> defined as the mind's bent towards goodness, it
> makes
> sense. But I don't see a clear path to defining an
> objective quality in the world when there is so much
> evidence against that.<<<
>
> Howerya Angus,
>
> The notion that Quality has to be - or can be -
> pigeonholed into
> "subjectivity" or "objectivity" is not valid, I
> think, precisely because
> Quality not only unifies these two intellectual
> categories, but transcends
> the whole mentality/metaphysics of subjects and
> objects altogether.
> Quality is preintellectual; "the sign and the
> instrument" so to speak (in
> that sense, "bent towards goodness" could be valid
> as a phenomemon of
> Quality, but not "of mind")
>
> - Oisín
>
>
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