From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 07 2003 - 20:07:42 GMT
Hi Nathan,
Good question, thanks
I'd say essence is more of a static and intellectual thing than expectation,
which is active and real and may change. Essence is dead and lifeless,
expectation chomps at the bit and wants to drive ahead. An essence has no
motive implicit in it, while an expectation has a moral imperitive component
that is the (only) motive for it becoming real. Why does an essence become
a bicycle (or tree or rock), and why doesn't it become this perfect
essential bicycle or tree everytime? Essence may describe our expectations
of what a perfect bike would be, but it is just for our philosophical musing
about what a bicycle is, there's no ontological function. An expectation
actually becomes the reality of a bicycle because it should morally (it's
there in the word, an equal part of the meaning of the word). and it
doesn't materialize into a perfect bycycle, because an expectation can not
exist by iteslf, it is always one of gazillions of other expectations. For
example, my bicycle I expect to be a Fuji S10S everytime I look at it, and I
expect it's chain to be little more in need of oil everytime I see it, even
though being a Fuji S10S with a dry chain isn't the essence of a bicycle.
And expectations don't come from "out there" the way Plato describes
essences in the parable, they come from experience of the world. There
could be no expectation of a bicycle without people having a reason to
expect a bicycle based on their experience. I only expect my bicycle to be
in my basement because that's where i left it. This is the other meaning of
expectation: expectation describes reality, the patterns that have come to
be. We expect apples to fall to the earth because we have seen apples
falling to the earth, and this is why apples fall to the earth.
The absolute euphoric key is that the two meanings are not seperate and
coincidental, they are the same meaning. Neither half would retain its
meaning if the other half were removed. Without a moral imperitive for a
pattern to repeat, it will stop repeating, and without a pattern to repeat,
there will be no moral imperitive. Morality is the way things are, not the
way we think things ought to be. The words "should", "supposed to",
"expected to" and "moral" all describe the probable future, based on the
past, as well as convey the rightness of that future being realized. "The
guests should start arriving at 8" is both a prediction and a statement that
they would be impolite to start arriving at another time. "It is supposed
to rain today" is both a prediction and a statment that it would be wrong
(upsetting) for it not to rain today.
It's like Yin and Yang. Neither half came first, the two halves developed
together, from a single undivided whole called Expectation itself (aka
Morality or Quality or Reality), and each half leans on the other. The only
reason we should do something is because we should, or, the only reason it
is right to do something is because that is the pattern.
Expectation directly translates to Morality, each word fully containing all
the meaning of the other. But Essence doesn't really translate to Morality,
at least not without reconceiving essence to have a moral component, a why.
Maybe Plato does do that and I just don't know Plato very well.
Thanks for your question.
Your relation of soul to essence seems to me to further the gulf between
expectation and essence, but if a consciousness is a soul, a consciousness
is also expectation, so perhaps your on to something. A consciousness
expects things, it is an engine of expectatation, expectation is its fuel
and its product. A consciousness devoid of expectation would be dead, not
conscious at all. There would be no future for it, nothing to expect.
Johnny
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