[MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet II !

[gav]

> > 1.       How does your definition or understanding of
> intellectual
> > level/value differentiate the social level from the
> intellectual level as
> > well as social values from intellectual values? 
> Please provide examples of
> > both intellectual and social values and share how your
> definitions of each
> > level are able to clearly discern the levels.


social values serve society; intellectual values serve the individual.

 
> 2.       Given there is a evolutionary process to each of
> the levels, what
> > is a possible historical point in which represents the
> likelihood for the
> > birth of the Intellectual level, and what is the basis
> for this
> > period/event(s) chosen and how intellectual level
> changed or remained the
> > same over time.

the origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
roughly 2500 years ago (the time when lao-tse, buddha, heraclitus, zoroaster all burst on to the scene). it is what produced classical greece - our parent culture.
 

> > 3.       It seems clear that both social and
> intellectual levels use
> > language, but in different ways.  Please describe how
> each level utilizes
> > language to sustain its level?

society favours absolute definitions - ideological language; intellectual level favours poetry - contextual meaning, existential truth.



> > 4.       Given that intellectual values dominate
> it's parent level, the
> > social level, yet must sustain and maintain a relative
> harmony with the
> > social level.  Given your definition or understanding
> of intellectual
> > levels
> > how do intellectual values do that?

[i have already explained all these in my previous post....]
the individual chooses which social patterns support them - this is moral. social patterns choosing intellectual patterns is immoral.

 



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