Hi Guys,
This is what I understand about the MOQ. Do you agree? Page numbers are
for the Bantam paperback edition.
Value is the fundamental ground-stuff of the world (pg. 180). It is reality
and it creates all things (pg. 114). Value is equivalent to causation (pg.
119). First there was value, then there was substance, which was created
out of value (pg. 116). Values are grouped into moral systems, where each
level of value is equivalent to a set of moral judgments (pg. 183). There
are four static levels of patterns of value. These static patterns of value
are equivalent to moral judgment (pg. 180); they are inorganic, biological,
social, and intellectual. Each of these levels of values is defined by a
separate set of morals whose purpose is to protect and enhance the existence
of the level. Quality is morality, so each level of values can be defined
as a level of static quality.
The four static levels of value/moral judgment are independent moral empires
unto themselves (pg. 187). The set of moral judgments used to enhance and
protect one level are not the same set needed to enhance and protect
another. Thus the four static levels are in conflict. To resolve these
conflicts between the morals of each level a higher set of moral codes exist
(pg. 187). There are moral codes which establish the supremacy of
biological morals over inorganic, of social morals over biological, and of
intellectual morals over social. Thus there is a hierarchy of moral empires
(static quality) that begins with the inorganic level and extends upwards
through the intellectual.
The definition of static quality can be expanded, then, to include not only
the moral judgments of each level, but also the moral codes which supply the
hierarchy between each level. Static quality then is the primary empirical
reality of the world (pg. 76). The quality or moral imperative of order
within the universe.
At the base, and the top, and permeating throughout and between all the
levels, however, is the even higher morality of Dynamic Quality; but it is
not a moral code (pg. 187). Dynamic Quality contains the moral levels and
the moral codes operating between them. Dynamic Quality is the cutting edge
of reality (pg. 133). It is the source of all things, all values, all
levels, and all moral codes. Dynamic Quality is ultimately the quality of
freedom (pg. 139); the quality of chaos (pg. 139). Dynamic Quality is the
spark that ignited the moral quest of each level. Dynamic Quality is the
willingness to be lucky (pg. 252). The willingness to take risks. It is
the principle of rightness in the universe (pg. 439). Dynamic Quality is a
vast emptiness where nothing is sacred (pg. 441). All life is a migration
of static patterns of quality toward Dynamic Quality (pg. 160).
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