[MD] A Place for the Principled Person

[Sojosoniq]

> In other words, at what level do you insert a pattern of morally
> principled person?
>
> If you answer "the social level" you are buying into the common notion
> that all morality is social and always involves other people, i.e., no
> morality required by someone marooned alone on a desert island.
>
> As to the first answer, there's no need for an intellectual level if
> everything is social anyway.

Hello.  I am fairly new to this list but its interesting that your "first
answer" would be the one I would choose precisely for the reasons you
stated.  I've never been convinced that there is any way to divide the
"intellectual level" from the "social level".  I realize this diverges
significantly from an orthodox Pirsig model but I'd be happy to elaborate
further as to why I believe that, or in your terms, why I "bought into" that
"common notion".