Re: RE; MD the individual in the MOQ

From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 05 2004 - 01:49:06 BST

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    > Except without the individual there would be no response to DQ, nor would
    > there be any intellectual values since the individual is their source.
    >

    And without the "social" there would only be an ongoing stream of DQ, and no way
    to "latch" or orient or build static structures.

    And there would be no intellectual values without the social since the social is
    what enables the intellectual.

    So, the "intellectual" level should not be renamed the "individual", nor should
    it be renamed the "collective", it should remain the "intellectual" and exist
    as a dialectic of the two.

    Arlo

    > "Whenever you kill a human being you are killing a source of thought too.
    > A human being is a collection of ideas, and these ideas take moral
    > precedence over a society. Ideas are patterns of value. They are at a
    > higher level of evolution than social patterns of value. Just as it is
    > more moral for a doctor to kill a germ than a patient, so it is more moral
    > for an idea to kill a society than it is for a society to kill an idea.
    > And beyond that is an even more compelling reason; societies and thoughts
    > and principles themselves are no more than sets of static patterns. These
    > patterns can't by themselves perceive or adjust to Dynamic Quality. Only a
    > living being can do that." (Lila, 13)
    >
    > Platt
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