Re: RE; MD the individual in the MOQ

From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 06 2004 - 19:48:44 BST

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    disagree

    biological behaviour =instincts
    social =myth, culture, tradition
    intelletual = capacity to understand/reason -something only individuals
    experience and can dynamically
    evolve, myth also evolves but not by intellectual individual efforts

    DM

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Arlo J. Bensinger" <ajb102@psu.edu>
    To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 6:41 PM
    Subject: Re: RE; MD the individual in the MOQ

    >
    > > No one argues that the social isn't necessary if for no other reason
    than
    > > it takes a society of your father and mother for you to be here.
    >
    > No, it takes two biological individuals for you to "be here". It takes a
    shared
    > social semiotic for you (as a biological individual) to achieve
    "intelligence".
    >
    >
    > But when
    > > it comes to responding to DQ, only you, as an individual, are capable.
    > > Societies don't respond. Read again the story of the brujo.
    > >
    >
    > No one denies the activity of biological individuals. It is a given.
    >
    >
    >
    > > No one suggests the intellectual level should be renamed the
    "collective."
    >
    > > But the social level could be renamed the "collective level" and the
    > > intellectual the "individual level" to emphasize the difference and to
    > > show the dynamic and thus moral superiority of the individual over the
    > > collective.
    >
    > If anything, perhaps the biological level should be renamed the
    "individual"
    > since it discusses biological entities responding to DQ without a social
    > semiotic, whether amoebas or individuals devoid of a social semiotic. The
    > result is the same, an endless stream of DQ and nothing else.
    >
    >
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