[MD] irony and socrates

[John Carl]

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> Hitler was the least "intellectual" conceivable, the nazi movement was
> social value's last stand  in the Western hemisphere according to
> Pirsig in LILA something I agree totally with.
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Disagree about Hitler.  Mein Kampf was an intellectual plea to take society
on a different path because of the failures of the German State.   This was
immoral, not because of a static hierarchical relationship between social
dominance and intellectual.  It was immoral because it ruthlessly suppressed
all potential for  dynamic evolution.

In other words, morality is determined by the DQ/sq orientation of any
choice at any level, not by simplistic hierarchical analysis.




> If you hint to my saying that intellect is the highest static good, the
> MOQ tenet of this being subordinate to the overall DQ/SQ
> constellation is most important.
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Holding intellect as the highest good would be "intellectualism" or
"objectivism".   I agree that DQ is more important, but I disagree that it
is a level above the 4th.

I'm starting to see more clearly now, and I appreciate your patient
dialogue. And  thanks for sending me back to kindergarten, some time back
Bodvar.  I've learned a lot there!

John the ready to graduate