From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 19:32:27 BST
Hi Davor:
> I believe the intellectual level in a non-technical sense, is a level where
> one accepts himself as an individual and moral authority. It means IMO that
> an individual has broken free(correction;is breaking free) from the
> constraints of the social level, which means an individual accepts his own
> authority. This seems to go to a world of perspectives and that there is no
> common good, but I believe there is, DQ. As the progression of the levels
> in many situations progress to the same goal. More practical, take for
> instance secularisation which is a shift from a social to intellectual
> level construction which means that the authority of 'pragmatic' societal
> decisions are not longer based on what God says but what a voice inside
> individuals say and what they have agreed on. It might not be a fully
> intellectual level construction, but at least it is intellectually driven
> and going towards DQ rather than obedience to dogmas as in(most) religions.
> But as there is one thing most of us agree on it is; I could be wrong!
You've nailed the intellectual level precisely, "where one accepts himself
as an individual and moral authority" and, I would add, "also accepts full
responsibility for the consequences."
> IMO, 'freedom' in MOQ terms is not what is
> needed on a certain level, but what has the greatest ability(or
> receptiveness) to change. So a rock might be free in it's static existence,
> but is very...very unreceptive to change and therefore is not free at all.
> The progression in morality is an ability to allow change, DQ. So with each
> level more possibilities arise, the greatest number of possibilities are on
> the intellectual level, the lowest number of possibilities on the inorganic
> level. These possibilities are a consequence of the decrease in constraints
> on the different levels. It seems now that chaos would be highest moral
> goal, it is not because a higher level is as you mentioned is always still
> constrained by lower levels, and as the level is higher the constraints
> increase, but new levels generate MORE possiblities then constraints and
> are therefore more moral.
Again, you've nailed the MOQ meaning of freedom. From time to time in
the discussions on this site I've thought to myself, " I wish I'd said that."
Both of the passages you wrote above fall in that category.
Platt
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