[MD] NAP

[blue-jay maple]

Your welcome.  Lao-tzu is considered to be a liberty 
proponent of natural law too by many scholars.

Nick


> > Nick:
> > It's the best possible way that I know of to
> > minimize conflict.  Since we are social animals,
> > this principle conflates with natural law and therefore
> > the natural rights of liberty, life (person), and property.
> > It is an age old knowledge (just saying this so you know
> > I'm not making this up) that natural rights are moral values.
> > Yet not all moral values are natural rights.  Natural rights
> > are universal and are therefore moral values that are
> > natural law.  Where are all the moral values and including
> > those that conflate into natural rights originating?  In the
> > pursuit of happiness.  When the greek word for this concept
> > is understood (cause that's where it comes from), happiness
> > means flourishing, quality, well-being.  Do you see what
> > I mean now?  Quality is all about minimizing conflict in
> > order that all flourishes, and thus for human nature to flourish
> > as well.  It is meant in this way:
> >
> > flourish
> > verb
> > 1 ferns flourish in the shade grow, thrive, prosper, do well, 
> > burgeon, increase, multiply, proliferate; spring up, shoot up, 
> > bloom, blossom, bear fruit, burst forth, run riot. antonym die, 
> > wither.
> > 2 the arts flourished thrive, prosper, bloom, be in good health, 
> > be vigorous, be in its heyday; progress, make progress, advance, 
> > make headway, develop, improve; evolve, make strides, move 
> > forward (in leaps and bounds), expand; informal be in the pink, 
> > go places, go great guns, get somewhere. antonym decline.
> >
> > This dictionary mentions ferns and arts.  But flourish includes 
> > everything.  Thus it means for society, individuals, life to 
> > thrive, prosper, be of good quality.
> >
> > The telos in flourishing is of good.  Humans telos what is good.  
> > That's what flourishing is about.  I have a paper by a professor 
> > that discusses this.  I'm actually in a conversation with the 
> > professor now about quality and the pursuit of happiness.  People 
> > haven't seen this side of what quality means and how it fits.  
> > I've been able to resolve a lot of intellectual debates cause I 
> > understand quality from the moq.  Somehow I have been getting 
> > people that disagree with each other, to agree with me and yet I 
> > understand quality and that's why.  Yet they are using 
> > flourishing sometimes, but haven't gone to the depths that the 
> > moq goes in explaining it.  Aristotle talks about flourishing and 
> > how it is a society and person striving for what is good.  He 
> > lists in his book on ethics what is thriving and what is decay.
> >
> > Does this help show you where I'm coming from now?
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> Marsha:
> You introduced me to the Platform Sutra and as a vehicle to 
> Buddhism.  Thank you for that.
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