From: phyllis bergiel (neilfl@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 20:11:25 BST
Johnny:
You're right, this is the first response on it I've rec'd.
> You're right about earlier non-conformists, those are good examples.
>
> And I'm glad you love Edwards, "Sinners..." is some great imagery. James
Carse's book on Edwards called "The Visibility Of God", I recommend that
one the most, for its treatment of Edwards failure to save
> America from the lasting effects of a private morality.
Thanks for the recommendation, my summer reading list is filling nicely.
That's why I love
> Lila so much, though it pulls its punch and doesn't connect the dots, it
> almost restores morality to its full importance.
>
> regarding the morality of reformers, they usually are either at the
> intersection of two cultures, helping to control the merging of moralities
> (and thus figuring out how to be is moral as possible, but necessarily
being
> immoral in some regard in both cultures), or they are helping to reconcile
> intersecting moral patterns in one culture that have developed over time.
> They start out being immoral in some regards, using persuation to convince
> people to change their normal behavior by pointing to other elements of
> morality. They convince people over time that most people would behave in
a
> new way for some moral reason, but they have to be able to give an
accepted
> moral reason as their persuation for people's wills to change,
You've just highlighted my concern, quite nicely too, about postmodernism.
If it rejects rationality as an arbiter as it seems to, then it doesn't have
an accepted moral reason.
Lilaesquely, the intellectual level is the static latch for making anything
from the dynaimc level "stick" If you destroy the intellectual (rational)
before the gains are fixed societywide, it won't work. (?!)
What do you think?
phyllis
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