[MD] Sex, Rape and Law in a MOQ

[ADRIE KINTZIGER]

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2010/12/5 david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>

>
> Mark said:
> It sounds to me like you are putting Quality in some kind of Truth
> category.  How do you get around that with your interpretation of Quality?
>  These distinctions are man-made, where does the truth come from?
>
> dmb says:
> No, I'm just saying that the difference between the biological and the
> social a widely known distinction. This distinction is intellectual and
> fairly obvious and I really don't see how anyone can get through college
> without bumping into it repeatedly. None of this has anything to do with
> subordinating Quality to truth. Truth is a kind of static quality, namely
> intellectual static quality. And this particular truth is just about the
> distinctions between our cultural values and our animal instincts. Marriage
> confines the acceptable limits of the expression of our sex drive and the
> prohibitions against murder put restriction on the expression of the
> instinct to violence and aggression. As far as I know, no serious person
> would dispute this. That basic idea explains quite a lot. It's one of the
> most useful generalizations ever invented.
>
> Oh yea, I'm talking to a guy who thinks Stephan Hawking is a loser and who
> thinks evolution is a stale idea. It seems you have a fondness for rejecting
> some of the best ideas in circulation. For a minute, I forgot who I was
> dealing with.
>
> Anyway, for those who are interested in truth, you might want to know that
> Pirsig agrees with the pragmatic theory of truth, particularly James's
> version of that truth theory.
>
> "James said, 'Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually
> supposed, a category distinct from good, and coordinate with it.' He said,
> 'The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of
> belief.' TRUTH IS A SPECIES OF GOOD. That was right on. That was EXACTLY
> what is meant by the Metaphysics of Quality. Truth is a static intellectual
> pattern WITHIN a larger entity called Quality." (Lila, pp. 363-4. Emphasis
> is Pirsig's)
>
>
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