[MD] Value and the Anthropic Principle

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Hi Ham,
Leslie invented the term 'Axiarcism' to suggest that value (axia) is the  
beginning (arche).
(The term is first introduced in his ‘The Theory that the World Exists  
Because It Should’,
American Philosophical Quarterly Vol.7 No.4 (Oct.  1970)
I've used this idea in my University of Liverpool Interdisciplinary Forum  
presentation abstract to support the moq. The moq is a version of axiarcism i  
argue, and the best version in my opinion.
I've been corresponding with Leslie in Canada.
 
Ian G has the details of a rough version of my abstract.

 
In fact, my current MA essay for metaphysics discusses if axiarcism  
challenges theistic explanations for creation. From Leslie's CV:
 
“Value and Existence” (Basil Blackwell: Oxford, 1979): an
investigation  of the neoplatonist suggestion that God, instead of
being a person, is the  world’s ethical requiredess, a factor
which is itself creatively successful,  and of the world-picture
which this suggestion appears to involve.
 
 
“Infinite Minds: a philosophical cosmology” (Oxford
University Press,  Oxford, 2001, paperback 2003, at the Clarendon
Press, and Oxford University  Press worldwide). Defends an updated
Spinozistic pantheism.


 
 The Anthropic principle is not required for axiarcism because it may  be 
suggested there is bountiful empirical evidence to support the postulation  that 
value pre-exists:
1. Existence.
2. Therefore, humans to aesthetically appreciate values because they are  
values.
3. Therefore humans are values resonating with other values.
 
Love,
Mark