From: PhaedrusWolf@aol.com
Date: Sat Nov 20 2004 - 03:45:02 GMT
In a message dated 11/19/04 12:44:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk writes:
I read it differently; more that the measurer was creating the values
through the descriptions
(shades of Adam naming the animals, or inventing the 'law' of gravity). In
other words, idealism.
Hi Sam,
As I don't know squat, I am always glad to offer what I don't know. :o)
Pretty much how I read this is that "Man is the measure of all things." --
Quality and/or value are all things combined. Man is not the creator, but the
namer, offering descriptions for his own use, yes. Man is also not the passive
observer. He does have influence on the world around him. Man would be an active
participant in the advancement of Quality and/or value in the world in which
he lives.
As I saw it, Quality did have Lila. Lila chose to pass on Quality for the
safer and more accepted lower quality static patterns created by man,
particularly Rigel and his 'Victorian principles.'
My problem was with the Idol stating that they all won. Lila got Rigel;
Rigel got Lila; Phaedrus was rid of Lila. Did this add Quality to either of their
lives? -or- Did it come through the misconception that there was more to
Lila than Rigel thought, and that Rigel offered Quality to Lila in the form of
an answer to her quest for Value? Did Phaedrus miss out on the opportunity to
improve the world around him in some small way by allowing Rigel to take Lila
out of a Quality discovering opportunity? It seems to me to be a sellout on
all their parts. But that is just me.
I might think that Quality can have Lila, or any of us that allow it to
happen. We can stop it from happening, just as we can destroy the world, in which
case "Man" would become the creator of all things left. :o)
Did I hear Dan Glover, an author of a book, say that it is likely it is he
that is missing something? What a refreshing attitude over what I have been
accustomed to from authors of other books I have had the opportunity to speak
with. I must see if I can find a copy of this book. It may prove to further
reduce my concerns that "Poetry" as Socrates called it " . . . is imitative."
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