From: Joe (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Sun May 09 2004 - 21:16:38 BST
On 30 April 2004 9:40 PM Mark H writes:
Mark H
All of nature consists of four moral levels of SQ patterns or values,
with DQ mixing the pot at all levels. In order of decreasing
morality, along with representative patterns, these moral levels are:
Hi Mark H, and all,
joe: Writing a metaphysics is degenerate. LILA-5
Sonetimes a Dynamic increment goes forward but can find no latching
mechanism, and so fails and slips back to a previous latched position.
LILA-11
This high country passage through the Metaphysics of Quality allowed entry
to another valley of thought in which the facts of life get a much richer
interpretation. The valley spreads out into a huge fertile plain of
understanding.
In this plain of understanding static patterns of value are divided into
four systems: inorganic patterns, biological patterns, social ppatterns and
intellectual patterns LILA-12
joe: IMO this is an example of metaphysical degeneracy.
So what Phaedrus was saying was that not just life, but everything, is an
ethical activity. It is nothing else. When inorganic paterns of reality
create life the Metaphysics of Quality postulates that the've done so
because it's 'better' and that this definition of 'betterness'--this
beginning response to Dynamic Quality-- is an elementary unit of ethics upon
which all right and wrong can be based. LILA-12
joe: IMO this is Pirsig's definition of morality. 'Betterness' is a
mystical acceptance of the undefined.
joe: IMO the static formulation you have derived from reading LILA-13 could
be prefaced by a note that 'moral' is a degenerate latching of 'betterness'.
The static is always interpreted in terms of the dynamic. The evolution of
the hierarchy determines the morals.
Joe Maurer
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