[MD] Objectivism and the MOQ

[Ham Priday]

[Ham]:
> But is Absolute Beingness even conceivable?   If so,
> how do we divide it up into the finite pieces that constitute
> existence?  Perhaps that would mean Nothing is the Creator.
> Or, perhaps we divide it by our own nothingness?

[Laramie]:
> Interesting.  What is the difference you have in mind between
> "Nothing" and "nothingness", used in the last two sentences?

Empirically there is no difference; nothingness = nothing, and the negate or
Self is nothing.  Epistemologically, however, the nothing-self (negate)
becomes something to itself as soon as the organism senses value: it becomes
the "identity" of that value.  At that moment -- probably a late stage in
fetal development -- the Self/Other dichotomy is transformed into the
proprietary awareness of an otherness.  Thereafter, the negate is a
metaphysical entity known only to itself.  (It has no empirical equivalent.)
So, in that sense, PA is a "different nothingness" -- the conscious locus of
a being-aware.  And the object of PA is the appearance of Value as
beingness.

[L]:
> Self-awareness, intellection, value sensibility,
> moral judgment, and creativity are the faculties
> the MoQ requires us to exercise in order to
> understand it, and which were used by its author
> in order to write it.

In order to understand the MoQ?  I submit that we use these faculties to
construct existential reality.  And the exercise of these faculties is not a
"requirement" of any philosophy, but the inherent response of the embodied
negate (individual identity) to the Value perceived.

[L]:
> IMNSHO, the role of the individual is to enable the
> universe to become aware of itself, and to become
> an expression of it.

Let's see -- IMNSHO -- could that be "In-My-Not-So-Humble-Opinion"?
Is that my clue that you're not about to modify this assertion?

Actually, the concept gets you to third base in the ballpark of
Essentialism.  To score a home run, you'll have to accept a slight
modification.  The universe is not significant.  The role of the individual
is to enable Being to become aware of Value.  Human individuals are the
autonomous "beings" by which Value is realized.

Someone here recently quoted an anonymous source that stated: "My mind is
not in my body; my body is in my mind."  This is very true.  Not only my
body but the entire universe is in my mind; it is the being of my existence,
my identity.  The universe is no more than mental images constructed by the
intellects of "beings-aware" like you and me to represent the values we
perceive.  Metaphysically, the objects of existence are what is left over
when their values have been selectively acquired by the subject.

Allah willing, I'll be running additional Value Page essays in the future to
explain the dynamics of value sensibility in more detail.

Cheers,
Ham