Re: MD The Eudaimonic MoQ

From: SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 17:42:30 BST

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    Hi Squonk,

    > sq: Hi Sam, I don't understand you. You may be right? But the virtue you
    talk
    > of, i would simply call high Quality static latching. Now that we have an
    MoQ
    > terminology why return to older ones with older baggage?

    I would want to hang on to virtue language for its specificity (ie there are
    high quality static
    latches at all levels - how do you distinguish level 4 from the others). It
    may not be the best word
    though.

    sq: Thanks. It's just that i get concerned when i have to stop using MoQ
    terms. I find that confusing.

    > sq: I see. This may be the source of some confusion for me, because when
    you
    > use the term Eudaimon, i immediately assumed you had Aristotle in mind.
    Where
    > did you get the term?

    Eudaimonia is (obviously) a Greek term, but I wouldn't want it to be
    exclusively identified with
    Aristotle, and I see no need why it should. My understanding is more derived
    from Alasdair
    MacIntyre, to be honest (a second-hand amalgam of Aristotle and Aquinas) but
    I'd like to think it
    could be judged on its own merits.

    Cheers

    Sam

    sq: Fair enough. Please don't think i am trying to indulge in a bit of
    Christian bashing here, but are you trying to, 'Do an Aquinas' by fusing
    Christianity with the MoQ - like Aquinas did with Aristotle and Christianity?
    Come on, the game's up! ;)
    It's a bit of shame you don't embrace MoQ terms? But as a Christian, that's
    not going to happen is it? I should just forget trying to twist your arm
    shouldn't i?
    squonk

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