From: hampday@earthlink.net
Date: Sat Aug 14 2004 - 01:26:13 BST
Ham's reply to Arlo Bensinger sent Friday, August 13, 2004
RE: MD Proposal to discuss a Metaphysics of Value
You quoted me as saying ...
> > The "Values" commentary on my website is a recent addition aimed at
> > getting more viewers.
> The "pure philosopher inner child" in me cringed at this. Let your content
> stand on its own.
You may be right, Arlo. It's just an experiment to see whether comment on
current events will pull in additional visitors. But if it's seen as a
distraction
from the thesis, I'll eliminate it.
> The one I would recommend to you is his "The Philosophy of Value".
I'll certainly check it out. The title somehow appeals to me. (:
> > (I definitely recall Pirsig mentioning teleology as an ongoing process
> > of the DQ type.)
> But without sq, each advance made by DQ would have been lost
> and would need to be endlessly recreated. Even the hypothetical "man free
> in nature" would not exist because "man" is a product of static qualities.
See, I have a problem with that concept, Arlo. In the existential world,
man
is a species of biological evolution, hence a "product" of Nature. That's
pure
existentialism. For the essentialist, man, the individual [I-self], is
unique in that
he is the "subject" of experience -- a direct.negation of Essence rather
than
the "product" of anything. Products are of his own creation.
That may seem a minor distinction but it's important in understanding my
thesis.
I expect it will provoke more questions; but that's why I'm here.
Essentially yours,
Ham
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