[MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

[John Carl]

Khoo,

interesting piece, thanks for sharing that link.  So Kipling got his two
most famous lines from his mother.  I guess it pays to honor the feminine
consciousness.


But there is neither East nor West. Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
> When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of
> the earth!
>
>
Seems to me expressive of  Royce's philosophy of Interpretation:

"We know other minds because we have interpretative knowledge: ideas
confront us which contrast with our ideas; their novelty and unexpectedness
lead us to believe that they are not our ideas; attempts to interpret them
as our ideas fail.  We interpret these relatively alien ideas, Royce says,
only by using the familiar hypotheses that they belong to the mind of
someone else... we treat certain behavioral manifestations as signs, that is
as expressive of mind; but the mind of which they are signs is not our own,
and so we postulate other minds."

In this regard, difference confirms the self.  In a values-free worldview, a
subjective consciousness puts ultimate value upon the self and difference
obviates the self, and thus difference creates insecurity and  must be
repressed or eliminated.  They go on "missions" to convert the "heathen".

I though that the thesis you linked to pointed out that Kipling wasn't just
a Victorian Missionary.

Cool!

John






> There is a gem of a piece on Ruddy at
> http://www.f.waseda.jp/buda/texts/ballad.html. Enjoy!
>
> Best regards
> Khoo Hock Aun