[MD] Is Morality innate in the cosmos?

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Spiritual Adriondak wrote]
You said, "Joseph Campbell calls the "monomyth", the underlying 
similarities that emerge when one examines mythos across historical and 
cultural boundaries."  I wonder if "monomyth" is what Ham would call "essence".

[Arlo]
I'm not sure if Ham would say it (although I doubt it), but I think its a 
fairly good statement for any named "It". Included, as the snake swallowing 
its own tail, "monomythism" itself. The paradox is, even if you step back 
and say, "what is it behind all these cultural analogies?", your answer is 
still in the form of an analogy. It has to be. The monomyth is no less an 
analogy than the MOQ, or Essentialism, or Nihilism or Christianity. It may, 
as Campbell attempts to, help de-harden hardened metaphors by keeping the 
attention ON metaphor, but it is part of the mythos it tries to explain.

[SA]
Arlo, you might say, "Call it what you will.  "Whatever" you call it, this 
identifying or naming of it, is still an analogy of it."  Am I correct?

[Arlo]
You are.

[SA]
If, what I say above is the kind of response you would make, then I would 
like to know what "it" is.

[Arlo]
How can you "know what it is" apart from the analogies we use to talk about 
"it"? (To be sure, I think there is great value in what Pirsig calls the 
"preintellectual" and Eco calls the "protosemiotic", mediative-awareness. 
In this manner, you may be able to "know it" apart from the analogies, but 
the moment you descend into words and representations you are right back in 
the analogy.) So, I'm not sure I understand your question. Any description, 
or explanation, I try to give you to make sense of "it" is never "it", just 
a cultural-analogous representation, a metaphor that, if powerful, may help 
point you towards "it", but never anything more. Pirsig said the "it' was 
"Quality". I resonate with that. He gave us a metaphor for understanding 
Quality in the form of the MOQ, which I think is a good metaphor for making 
sense of experience.

Whether "Quality", or "It", is an Absolute, or a No-thing, or any other 
such epistomological questions, I tend to avoid, simply because I feel it 
brings the metaphor down into the realm of the literal. I don't object to 
that line of thought, indeed I do find some epistomological questions 
necessary and fun, but its not my primary concern. To me, that likes 
trying  to formulate a definition of Beauty. I'd rather just watch the sun set.

Arlo