[MD] Values

[David M]

Hi Ron/SA

Do you think moral imagination plays a role?

David M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Kulp" <RKulp at ebwalshinc.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Values


> 
> [SA]
> 
>     By applying the intellectual level, and each subsequent level we
> would be wisely applying morals the moq would state.  By applying
> dynamic quality and thus, clearing the intellectual level to new
> open-minded, creative thoughts is morally helpful.
>     So, a kind of forgetting, the empty tea cup, is very moral.  I
> didn't see wiki covering this anywhere.
> 
> [Ron]
> I sniped this bit from the opening paragraph, : 
> "The semantics of ethics divides naturally into descriptivism 
> and non-descriptivism. The former position advocates the idea that
> prescriptive language (including ethical 
> commands and duties) is a subdivision of descriptive language and has
> meaning in virtue of the same kind of properties as descriptive
> propositions, whereas the latter contends that ethical propositions are
> irreducible
> in the sense that their meaning cannot be explicated sufficiently in
> terms of truth-conditions."
> (Ron: A kind of "not knowing")
> 
> "Correspondingly, the epistemology of ethics divides into cognitivism
> and non-cognitivism; a distinction that 
> is often perceived as equivalent to that between descriptivists and
> non-descriptivists. Non-cognitivism may
> be understood as the claim that ethical claims reach beyond the scope
> of human cognition or as the (weaker)
> claim that ethics is concerned with action rather than with knowledge."
> [Ron]
> SA, I took this to mean what you are stating, that value may be
> concerned with action rather than knowledge
> and "By applying dynamic quality and thus, clearing the intellectual
> level to new open-minded, creative 
> thoughts is morally helpful." thereby your statement supports a
> non-cognitive view.
> but, I suppose if you want to take me literally with the "seem to cover
> all the bases" you could probably 
> find other aspects which are not mentioned, so you are correct, it does
> not
> cover all the bases, but it does provide a pretty wide field for usefull
> purposes of comprehension.
> 
> woods
> 
> 
> 
> 
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