Re: MD People and Value in the MOQ

From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Wed Nov 17 2004 - 15:01:06 GMT

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    Hello Simon,

    Welcome to the forum by the way.

    > There isn't *a* pattern of value which corresponds to what we call a person.
    > You are looking for a person-in-itself - irreducible, indivisible,
    > self-sufficient, self-sustaining, and independent of everything else. This,
    > to my knowledge, has never been found in the real world, or if it has, has
    > never been shared with the rest of the world in a way that has been properly
    > understood or accepted. It is a figment of literary and religious
    > imagination. Can you correct me on this?
    <snip>
    > I think you would have to postulate a metaphysics of soul, or spirit, or
    > something, to get what you want. A metaphysics in which the individual human
    > is the most important and central thing in the universe simply by being an
    > individual human.

    If you go to the moq.org website, then look under Forum/Index of Essays, and scroll down to 'the
    eudaimonic MoQ', you'll discover an essay I wrote about two years ago which expands the background
    to my concerns. You could indeed call it a 'metaphysics of soul', although I think your following
    sentence above is a non sequitur.

    Cheers
    Sam

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