Mr. Holden and gang:
Platt said...
IMO Wilber offers little in terms of a practical moral guide. In fact, I've
read most of Wilber's work and have yet to understand how he views
morality other than the greater the depth, the more moral. I think he is
a vegetarian because "carrots don't scream." And he is strictly a
subject-object man, dividing the world into Left (subjective) and Right
(objective). In any case, his view of the world is a far cry from Pirsig's
position that morals are "the whole thing."
DMB says...
He's strictly a subject-object man? I think not.
"With empirical science there can be little quarrel, but with scientism...
well, scientism is a different beast. And here we might as well start to
look at the bad news, which is the FAILURE TO INTEGRATE THE BIG THREE.
Consciousness, morals, and science had indeed been freed fromtheir magic and
their mythic indissociation; each domain was set loose with its own power
and its own truth and it own approach to the Kosmos, each of which had
something EQUALLY important to say. But by the end of the 18th century, the
rapid, indeed extraordinary developmnet of science began to throw the whole
system off balance. The advances of the it-domain began to eclipse, and then
actually DENY, the values and truths of the I and the we domans. The big
three began to collapse into the big one: empirical science, and science
alone, could pronounce on ultimate reality. Science, as we say, became
scientism, which means it didn't just pursue it own truths, it aggressively
denied that there were any other truths at all! Only objective its with
simple location were really real. The entire interior dimensions were
completely gutted, and the ghost in the machine began its sad and lonely
modern moan, a haunting cry made all the more plaintive in that it had not
even the power to attract attention. When only objective its with simple
location are really real, then the mind itself is a tabula that is totally
rasa, utterly blank until filled with PICTURES or representations of the
only reality there was: objective and sensory nature. There is no real
SPIRIT, there is no real MIND, there is only empirical nature. No
superconsciousness, no self-conscious, only subconscious processes scurrying
endlessly, meaninglessly, in a vast system of interwoven its." Ken Wilber's
A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYTHING pages 264-5.
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