[MD] Democracy

[Horse]

Hi Platt

Just a minor point - why do equate reason (or "reason alone") with SOM. 
Surely reason is an intellectual POV and not a whole metaphysical system.

Horse

Platt Holden wrote:
> Hi Chris, 
>
>   
>> I do not disagree that a lower level pattern may be overlaid and
>> controlled 
>> by a higher one, all I'm saying is that  intellect doesn't control the 
>> social level only because we have democracy. Intellect controls the social
>> level when intellectual values are always more central than social ones. I
>> can imagine that when everyone within a democracy let's rationality 
>> supersede social level values every time they are in conflict - that would
>> be the ideal state for the intellectual level.
>>     
>
> Two problems with relying on intellectual level rationality.1) Reason alone 
> (SOM) doesn't provide a basis for moral judgments. 2)  "So convenient it is 
> to be a rational creature, since it enables us to find or make a reason for 
> everything one has a mind to do."  -- Benjamin Franklin. Obviously 1 and 2 
> are related. Example: In the current presidential contest there is no lack 
> of reasons on either side to cast one's vote.
>
> Platt
>
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