[MD] What's missing?

[David M]

Hi Bo

Is it not simply that people increasingly recognise
other values and possibilities that do not fall
into divine or social authority. Some of these
are related to practical values, some to pleasure
values, some to stoic values, some to the idea
of critical reason, some to the value of describing experience,
then we get travel and schism, so that we need to make
sense of divergence of belief, then we get practical values
becoming science, and always some extension from 
religious thought into philosophy. I say a great mix and no
single dividing line. What starts off small grows into 
something large and seeks its autonomy and its limits.

David M

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Subject: [MD] What's missing?


> Absolutely All.
> I have tried to tried to air this "quiz" a couple of times but for 
> some incomprehensible reason it did not evoke any interest, so I 
> try again and hope that many will respond.
> 
> In his letter of September 2003 to Paul Turner Pirsig uttered 
> these words:
> 
>    Just when the evolution of the intellectual level from the 
>    social level took place in history can only be speculated 
>    on .... [snip] .... but if one studies the early books of the 
>    Bible or if one studies the sayings of primitive tribes 
>    today, the intellectual level is conspicuously absent. The 
>    world is ruled by Gods who follow social and biological 
>    patterns and nothing else.  
> 
> But more specifically, what is missing from the said Biblical age 
> compared to posterity? If that can be pinned down we finally have 
> Pirsig's definition of what constitutes intellect. Of course there are 
> a billion "things" and, not much talk about politics and economics 
> ..etc. but you know what I mean.:  In a MOQ context what has 
> happened in between? 
> 
> Please
> 
> Bo 
> 
>  
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