Hi Roger and Focs,
PROGRAM>
Explain why the Dynamic is more moral than the static.
ROG:
> It seems we either need to show justification for this statement (see
my last
> two posts from July), or accept that the entire metaphysics and
ethical
> system is based on this anecdotally supported, emotive comment. Or
perhaps
> someone can suggest another way out.........
>
Nice to see you back as an active participant Roger. If you look back to
my answer to your July post, you will see that I tried to give a
scientific analogy by reference to the second law of thermodynamics,
which says that systems evolve towards increasing (degrees of) freedom.
In closing that post, I said something off the cuff . . .
JONATHAN
>To restate this all succinctly, DQ animates SQ. Thus, for example,
>biological patterns are more dynamic than inorganic patterns because
>they are more animated . . .
I've since been mulling over that, and now realize that my statement
provides another analogy that didn't occur to me when I first wrote it.
That is the analogy of life itself.
Life is better than death. One doesn't need a degree in ethics of
philosophy to justify that.
Life is its own justification. Life values itself.
The preservation of life depends on the perpetuation of certain
patterns. Once the animating "life force" is lost, death surely follows.
By analogy, Quality values itself, but also depends absolutely on an
ongoing dynamic animating force. Without it, quality simply dies.
Man's place in all this is as a part of that quality.
Jonathan
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