[MD] Regarding The Fundamental Nature of The Intellectual Level

[gav]

is the role of the intellect to guide the will?



--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [MD] Regarding The Fundamental Nature of The Intellectual Level
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Received: Friday, 11 July, 2008, 3:40 AM
> Chris:
> > I myself tend to discard the symbol manipulation
> > explanation because of 
> > the - as I  see it - quite obvious reason that this is
> not
> > in conflict with 
> > anything. The MOQ is a moral order, as we all know,
> and the
> > different levels 
> > have more or less competing "views" on
> Quality
> > and how to follow it. Thus I 
> > am inclined to thing along the paths of
> > "What is not by it's _fundamental nature_ in
> > service of either the 
> > inorganic, the biological or the social level?"
> 
> SA:  What do you mean here by discarding symbol
> manipulation due to it not "in conflict with
> anything"?  For then this "conflict with
> anything" might also be revealing to what you mean
> even further, if you could explain further, thanks.
> 
> Chris:
> > As I said - manipulation of symbols doesn't really
> cut
> > it for me - where is 
> > the FUNDAMENTAL conflict?
> 
> SA:  Do you need conflict?  This is probably not what you
> mean, so, if you could restate this another way I would
> appreciate it.
> 
> 
> Chris:
> > Knowledge for Knowledge's sake. Alone. 
> 
> SA:  I like this.  I don't know if this explains
> everything about intellectual patterns, but this clearly is
> in that direction, if not the way in the intellectual door,
> so to speak.  Some questions for further clarification and
> thinking on this:  What is wisdom?  Different from
> knowledge?  Same?  
>      What I like about this, is, many different kinds of
> knowledgeable pursuits exist (also read:  different kinds
> of knowledge), yet, they are still knowledge based or in
> other words, they are still knowledge.  Thus, many
> different kinds of intellectual patterns.
> 
> 
> SA 
> 
> 
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