[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[MarshaV]

Hi Dave,

I think your quote may be in the Copleston Annotation: 

"The MOQ is not opposed to materialism as long is it is 
understood that materialism is a set of ideas."


Marsha


 
 

On Aug 15, 2010, at 11:52 AM, David Thomas wrote:

> Marsha,
> 
>> I'm not getting your indignation...
> 
> That's because I'm not indignant. What you believe is what you believe.
> 
> Your original post says:
> 
>> You criticize Bo's point-of-view, yet from your other post you talk about
>> human animals and the evolution.  The MoQ is not about human
>> animals, but static patterns of value, and the evolution that the MoQ
>> references is the evolution of static patterns of value.
> 
> If I had to characterize a philosophical POV that is closest to mine it
> would be pragmatic philosophical realism.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism
> 
> Somewhere that I can't find right now I believe that Pirsig suggested that
> the MoQ subscribes to some form of realism. Your statement "The MoQ is not
> about human animals" denies the most basic claims of philosophical realism.
> So your views of reality, and the MoQ, and mine share so little common
> ground that any discussion would be more like a discussion of religion, than
> philosophy.
> 
> That is all that I was trying to convey.
> 
> Dave
> 
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