Hello all!
Donny wrote:
> > I know this has nothing to do w/ Marxism or burning
> rainforests...
> > But, IMHO, if you need philosophy to tell you whether or not you should
> > stay in your marrage vs. commit adultry -- or whether you should ambush
> > schoolkids w/ a gun -- then you've got problems more serious than we can
> > deal w/ here. It is not the purpose of metaphysical inquiry to tell you
> > how to vote in the next ellection.
> --Socrates
>
>
This passage of Donny's I had highlighted and saved in another composition. It
requires more refining than I have the time to give to it. I have a growing list
of drafts that will never get sent, I fear.
I don't believe we need consult Lila every time we make a decision. Yet our
metaphysics after all is the basis in how we approach those decisions. How we
perceive the world has every bearing upon how we respond to it.
More or less in the same vein - going back to the Marxism/capitalism debate, and
even before, to when we were discussing the static levels.
One of the questions that I have been mulling over the last few days is the
cultural relativity problem. Saying that only a higher level can adjudicate an
intralevel conflict is not an answer. That presupposes a 5th level - spiritual?
be well,
Don R.
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