Hi,
Although a religious perspective is not dominate here, I find that the close
of the Bible brings life as the ultimate human reward.
Revelation 21:3-4
Regards,
Mark --
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan B. Marder <marder@agri.huji.ac.il>
To: moq_focus@moq.org <moq_focus@moq.org>
Date: Saturday, August 05, 2000 7:02 PM
Subject: MF Life is better than death
>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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