Hi Marco:
Since a considerable time had elapsed since your previous post I was glad to
see you back on the site with your post to John B. of 2 Nov. Which is an
oblique way of saying I look forward to your posts and hope you will find
the time and inclination to write them more often.
For what it's worth I generally agree with everything you said to John.
Your last paragraph has given me reason to comment specifically: You
wrote:
> In the end, two are the main reasons I like the MOQ for: it's simple; it is
>antithetical to any dogmatic vision. Then, it is well possible that the
>moral principia of Wilber or of whoever else are better than the MOQ.
>And it is well possible that something else is even better. No morality
>is perfect. Anyway, you have definitively convinced me to put Wilber
>on the "to be read" list. Sooner or later.....
Like others I highly recommend Wilber to you. But if you are looking for
moral principles you'll find them strangely absent from his work other
than a generalized belief that "the greater the depth, the more moral." In
his major work. "Sex, Ecology, Spirituality" there are just 38 pages out
of a total of 763 where he specifically refers to ethics and/or morality.
>From this one can reasonably conclude that morality is not high on his
philosophical agenda. Further, his metaphysics (worldview) is SOM
through and through because he uses the basic division of
interior/exterior in his overall scheme. That the man is brilliant there is
no doubt. But he borrows ideas heavily from his peers and beneath all
the marvelous interweaving of theories from a wide variety of sources, I
failed to find a single original idea--at least nothing to compare with
Pirsig's idea that "morality is the primary reality of the world." Like you,
the simplicity of the MOQ appeals to me. (I'm not impressed by
complexity though many in academe seem to thrive on it, believing that
the more a piece of writing is incomprehensible, the better. To illustrate
my point, try reading something written by that academic darling,
Jacques Derrida, some time.) Also like you I believe there may a better
rational morality than outlined in the MOQ. It's just that I haven't found it
yet.
Regards,
Platt
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