[MD] Is Morality innate in the cosmos?

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

[Ham]
Is Philosophy an analogy?  If so, does that mean there is no reality, that
all experience can be reduced to analogue?

[Arlo]
Philosophy is the construction of analogies to explain "it". That does not mean
there is no "it", it just means that the only way we can ever know "it" is
through analogy. All human coded representations of "it" are analogies. I do
believe that there is the possibility (perhaps through meditation, or viewing a
work of art, or listening to Louis Armstrong, or Yoga or Zen) that one can
"experience" outside analogy. But the moment you take that and try to build it
into words and descriptions, or even other works of art, you are back in
analogy. You can see "it" out of the corner of your eye, but the moment you fix
your gaze on it it is seen through analogy. Even that statement I just made is,
of course, an analogy.

[Platt]
What you have defined for SA is nihilism, pure and simple.

[Arlo]
Who said there is "no reality"? I said the epistomological questions are not of
interest to me (mostly). I believe, for example, there is Beauty without the
need to endless debate and analyze and try to "capture" Beauty in words. If
you, as many others do, find such a quest of value, no one is stopping you.

And don't toss out your great fear of nihilism, the same way Platt tosses out
references to Pol Pot and Mao everytime someone dares to question Your Absolute
Principle. 

[Ham]
If the MoQ is an analogy, as you stated above, then DQ is an analogy also.
How, then, can you say that DQ is the force "outside the mythos"?

[Arlo]
"DQ", and the "mythos" are both analogies used to describe experience. The
statements, "the chariot of truth is guided by the two horses of reason and
passion", and "DQ regenerates and destroys the mythos", are both analogies used
to "make sense" of "it". The "mythos" is the sum historical total of these
analogies, but is itself also an analogy. When you start to see the recursion,
you're halfway there.

Arlo