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>From: "Struan Hellier" <struan@shellier.freeserve.co.uk>
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>Subject: RE: MD Zen and the intellect
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>Dear Struan,
You said:
Even hedonism presupposes the morality of freedom! Relativism is
>thus restricted to the denigrated status of a tool that many in power
utilise to forward their own
>morality and, more often, to the layman who falls for it.
>
>My only contribution here is to point out that moral relativism may be
the professed position of
>many, but on analysis it is not their true position. One then has to
delve deeper in order to
>ascertain what their metaphysics really is.
I agree!
This being the case I wonder what makes the ' objective
>moral principles' Platt offers any better than the objective moral
principles of other philosophies.
By their fruits, ye may determine, Struan, what is better!
>More importantly (and following a question Rob forwarded) I would be
interested to know of any moral
>decisions anyone has made which have been decided in reference to a
"reality-based rational
>framework" of a MoQ in contradistinction to being rationalised by said
framework after the event.
How about the example of Marcus Aurelius, Struan, and his decisions of,
Right Conduct or Arete, based upon a " reality-based rational framework
" or MOQ, framework, that was determinative for him, OR Struan, that his
actions, therefore, could be predicted, prior to an event, based upon
his framework? Struan, please just read Ļhis
" To Himself ", and you may begin to understand what I mean.
Best regards,
Paul.
>
>Struan
>
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>Struan Hellier
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>"All our best activities involve desires which are disciplined and
>purified in the process."
>(Iris Murdoch)
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