[MD] Awareness of Quality

[MarshaV]

After searching I found a copy of this in my documents folder:
   

Platt’s Principles of the MOQ


1. The Quality Principle: Quality is simultaneously an immanent and transcendent moral force. It created and gave purpose to our world, motivated by the ethical principle of the Good, which is its essence. Quality is synonymous with morality and value. Thus, the world is primarily a moral order, consisting not of subjects (mental things) Principles of the Metaphysics of Quality and objects (material things) but patterns of value.

 

2. The Awareness Principle: The essence of quality is known to us as awareness without content: pure, unpatterned experience. As such, it’s impossible to describe. Whenever we try, we end up describing what we are aware of, not awareness itself.

 

3. The Dynamic/static Principle: To explain the inexplicable, the Metaphysics of Quality divides quality into two parts, Dynamic and static. Dynamic Quality is the moral imperative to create; static quality is the moral imperative to survive.

 

4. The Levels Principle: Quality became manifest in our world by an evolutionary sequence of Dynamic Quality events. Left in the wake of these events were four static levels of evolution: Inorganic, Biological, Social and Intellectual. Each level is a static pattern of Quality, organized and governed by its own unique moral laws: the laws of physics, biology, culture, and reason, respectively.

 

5. The Awareness Hierarchy Principle: Each higher level evolved from and included the lower but expanded awareness. For example, the intellectual level can apprehend mathematical patterns that the lower levels cannot. Also, all levels possess, in addition to environmental awareness, an awareness of values. Even a lowly virus knows what’s good for it.

 

6. The Moral Hierarchy Principle: Because higher levels are more aware, they are more moral than levels below.  Intellectual patterns take moral precedence over social patterns, social patterns over biological, and biological patterns over inorganic. 

 

7. The First Dominance Principle: Because a lower level is largely unaware of levels above it, it considers itself to be the most moral and strives to dominate other levels. What is moral and lawful at one level is often immoral and unlawful at another. For example, biological laws defy the laws of physics. 

 

8. The Second Dominance Principle: Static patterns within levels that humans identify as entities are possessed by varying degrees of Quality depending on their affinity to the next higher or lower level. They often try to devour other patterns to enhance their own survival. This causes suffering, the negative face of Quality that drives the creative process.  

 

9. The Dependency Principle: When a higher level attempts to assert its moral dominance over a lower level, it must be careful that it does not endanger the stability of the lower level on which it ultimately depends for survival. For example, if the intellect in its quest for freedom from social inhibitions causes social instability, intellect will suffer.

 

10. The Individual Principle: At the present stage of moral evolution, only living beings can respond to Dynamic Quality. Humans, composites of all four levels, are the most capable of responding. However, responses to and evaluations of Quality vary by individual because each has a different static pattern of life history. 

 

11. The Truth Principle: Truth, an intellectual value pattern, is a species of Good. There’s no single, exclusive truth, but those of high quality are empirical, logical, elegant, and brief. In any case, it’s immoral for truth to be subordinated to social values. 

 

12. The Freedom Principle: To create ever higher levels of awareness, Dynamic Quality strives for freedom from all static patterns. Freedom is the core value and highest Good in the Metaphysics of Quality. Thus, the best social and intellectual patterns are those that promote freedom consistent with maintaining the static patterns necessary for survival. 

 

13. The Proof Principle: That reality is morality strikes most people as loony. But in denying that the world is a moral order, they have to employ moral judgment. They cannot refute that Quality is reality without asserting a value. And they will have to concede that it’s impossible to live without assumptions of what is Good.  For life requires action, action presupposes choice, choice presupposes purpose, and purpose presupposes values. [84]

 

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On Jan 17, 2010, at 9:01 AM, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi Marsha,
> 
> Nothing published. My essay "Say Hello to Now" is included in the MOQ 
> Forum, thanks to Horse. 
> 
> Your compliment is very much appreciated. We may disagree politically, 
> but are on the same page "Qualitically.," That's gratifying to say the 
> least. 
> 
> Platt . .   
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 17 Jan 2010 at 8:11, MarshaV wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi Platt,
>> 
>> This is great.  
>> 
>> Didn't  you also publish a document on Quality?  
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 17, 2010, at 7:53 AM, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey Mark,
>>> 
>>> Times when Quality thinking is likely to occur -- a list to build on. 
>>> 
>>> You know you're in MoQ-Land:
>>> 
>>> When you go fishing.
>>> When you cringe at jargon.
>>> When you visit an art gallery. 
>>> When you say, "'That's class." 
>>> When you read a story to a child. 
>>> When you go with your gut instinct. 
>>> When you have a feeling of coming home. 
>>> When you look for underlying assumptions. 
>>> When you hear a jazz performer improvise. 
>>> When you deliberately seek a break from routine. 
>>> When your attitude is "There must be a better way." 
>>> When you talk more about patterns than about things. 
>>> When you consider doing nothing to be a viable option. 
>>> When you ponder the difference between a jelly glass and fine crystal. 
>>> When you see a butterfly and think, "There's a nice biological value pattern." 
>>> When you identify a commentator who calls something "outrageous" as an 
>>> armchair moralist.
>>> When you realize that another person is running the same "Me" program as you 
>>> are which doesn't belong to either of you.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Platt
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 16 Jan 2010 at 20:08, markhsmit wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Andre,
>>>> Thanks for your response.  Quality as the driving force sounds good.
>>>> Sounds like a reasonable way to explain it.  So, how does one switch
>>>> from SOM to Quality thinking?  What does one practice?
>>>> 
>>>> What you describe is either living in the moment, ie. making
>>>> decisions not based on some desire for something a little
>>>> farther out in time, but just for the minute or the NOW as is
>>>> popular to say these days), or, that our decisions
>>>> are not our own to make, that is Quality makes them.  I'm fine
>>>> with either explanation.  If I am wrong, please let me know.
>>>> 
>>>> Say I were to go out to spread the word about Quality.  What kind
>>>> of flyer would I provide as a brief description?  Don't worry, this
>>>> is not my plan.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>> Mark
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 16, 2010, at 7:14:46 PM, "Andre Broersen" <andrebroersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> From:   "Andre Broersen" <andrebroersen at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject:    Re: [MD] Awareness of Quality
>>>> Date:   January 16, 2010 7:14:46 PM PST
>>>> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>>>> Andre to Mark(who is searching for awareness of Quality)
>>>> 
>>>> Why do you get out of bed in the morning?
>>>> 
>>>> Mark to Andre
>>>> OK, that sounds good. ?Now how do you explain that to a new person?
>>>> That is what I am asking for.
>>>> 
>>>> Andre:
>>>> OK, because getting out of bed is BETTER than staying in, i.e. it has
>>>> more Quality. You also respond to Quality when you stay in, in which
>>>> case staying in bed is BETTER than getting out, i.e it has more
>>>> Quality.
>>>> 
>>>> SOM would have this arse-about. It would say, I am getting out of bed
>>>> because, for example, I want to have a good breakfast (because it
>>>> places the quality IN the breakfast).
>>>> 
>>>> But please note that SOM uses quality in a different way to the way
>>>> the MoQ refers to Quality.
>>>> 
>>>> The MoQ would say that simply having the breakfast in the first place
>>>> (i.e. in your house) is a response to Quality... having a house is a
>>>> response to Quality etc. etc etc. Turtles all the way down the Quality
>>>> paths.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Andre
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