[MD] Quality strikes again

[Ian Glendinning]

Same subject Platt.

Since quality is in individual men (and I'm not arguing), how do
social groups benefit from individual intellectual patterns ? It's a
"how" question.

Unless you deny that groups / collectives exist / matter at all ? In
which case you have no interest in "governance".

EOWilson has written a lot of good stuff, but like everyone else, he's
not perfect.
Ian

On 7/15/08, Platt Holden <plattholden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> An article about E.O Wilson, the guru of ants and advocate of sociobiology,
> is in today's NY Times at:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15wils.html
>
> One paragraph caught my MOQ eye:
>
> "Dr Wilson´s treatise, on the shaping of social behavior, seems likely to
> tread firmly into this vexed arena.  Morality and religion, he suspects,
> are traits based on group selection. `Groups with men of quality - brave,
> strong, innovative, smart and altruistic  -- would tend to prevail, as
> Darwin said, over groups that do not have those qualities so well
> developed, ` Dr. Wilson said."
>
> I doubt, of course, if it ever occurred to Wilson that it's Quality, not
> groups, that basically drives evolution although it´s right there in his
> quote, staring him in the face.
>
> Amazing how even celebrated intellectuals can be blinded by their self-
> imposed "immune systems."
>
> Regards,
> Platt
>
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