From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 01:29:50 BST
Johnny, Kevin,
Kevin said:
when we talk about "good", "true", "better", or "morally
superior" in MOQ, are they actually products of DQ or are they our own
projections?
Johnny said:
I see DQ as amorally extending SQ into the future, and it is SQ that
determines if we say it is good or bad.
Matt:
I've kinda' been watching some of the conversation Johnny's been involved
in and I agree to a certain extent with what he is proposing for our
interpretation of Dynamic Quality. I'll simply add these thoughts to the pile:
I've argued that DQ is an indeterminate quantity from the perspective of
the present. "Dynamic Quality" is simply a compliment we pay to actions
after the fact, after history has judged those actions to be creative acts
of genius.
In a simple gloss, this is the same thing that Johnny is saying above, but
not necessarily. As I haven't paid careful attention to Johnny's argument
(its possible Johnny would gloss his statement the way I would), I can't
say what Johnny would agree to but this is how I would explain the possible
differences between the two positions:
My statement means that, while the current static patterns judge whether
past actions are Dynamic or not, the process of pushing forward is not
amoral, as Johnny's staccato statement of his project says. Any push
forward will be a creative act and will be, to the single genius and to the
growing community of followers, viewed as Dynamic Quality, as morally
superior to the static pattern it replaced. This reflects Dewey's notion
of a "means-ends continuum." Dewey said that as our means evolve, so do
our ends. This evolution of our society isn't a neat "first the means
change, then the ends" or vice versa, but a fuzzy, messy jumble. This
jumble roughly correlates to the static-Dynamic continuum.
This is how a neopragmatist would gloss Dynamic Quality. Hopefully Johnny
Moral finds it a good gloss.
Matt
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