Hi 3wd:
You wrote:
> Intellect='s [the laws of value]
>
> And rework my characterization of it to this:
>
> The intellectual level's duty, its moral obligation, what it "ought to do",
> for itself and the whole is:
>
> 1. Use all of its capabilities (reason, logic, intuition, etc) to
> continually identify patterns of value at all levels, uncover their
> interrelationships, and develop laws that best explain them.
> 2. Direct the use of this information such that it encourages the levels to
> evolve for the greater good all. 3. Primary of these 'greater goods' is
> freedom and those certain individual inalienable rights that all have. 4.
> The nature of laws within a dynamic intellectual system is that to be
> "good", they all must be considered provisional.
> PPS Platt- Jump all over # 4, I included it just to make your day. :-)
Thanks. Indeed you have made my day. All good laws are temporary,
including the law that all good laws are temporary. Methinks your law
just expired. (-:
Platt
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