[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[John Carl]

Spot on, Marsha.

In fact, that section is covered in my next posting of my tortoise-like
crawl through the Annotations.  It's already to send, as soon as I get my
laptop from my daughter.

John

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:59 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

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