[MD] moral judgements

[Heather Perella]

Comments at the bottom Marsha and Platt:



> Quoting MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>:
> 
> > Platt,
> > 
> > You wrote to Case, "It's a general guide, of
> course.  Pirsig made it 
> > clear that the MOQ was not intended to settle
> specific ethical 
> > questions.  (Sorry I can't find his actual
> quote.)"
> > 
> > I find this amazing.  It's huge.   Are you sure?
> > 
> > I'm not really surprised, though, how could it be
> otherwise.
> 
> I found Pirsig's quote. It's in the Introduction to
> Lila's Child. "After reading 
> through these and many other comments I've concluded
> the biggest improvement
> I could make in the MOQ would be to block the notion
> that the MOQ claims to be
> a quick fix for every moral problem in the universe.
> I have never seen it that
> way. The image in my mind as I wrote it was of a
> large football field that gave
> meaning to the game by telling you who was on the
> 20-yard line but did not decide
> which team would win. That was the point of two
> opposing arguments over the death
> penalty described in Lila. That was the point of the
> equilibrium between static
> and Dynamic Quality. Both are moral arguments. Both
> can claim the MOQ for support."
> There's more and worth reading. But, you get the
> idea.

     As values and morals are the elements of this
universe according to the MoQ and dynamic quality
lurks, therefore. if all was defined, then all would
be static.  This leaves the universe having a
mysterious notion that can be defined, no doubt, but
always another mystery is lurking at the horizon. 
Dynamic quality is thus quiet, and static quality is
ever refining and redefining as dq latches, in time,
and to use what Thomas Kuhn once said, the paradigm
shifts, or to use MoQ terminology, static quality
changes with each dq codified via art - simply the
universe is creative.  We'll make moral decisions
based on the new code of art latching into static
quality, thus, with the changing events we will make
decisions, but how moral those decisions are?  That
plays out in the field.  A?


quiet,
SA


 
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