however, from a buddhist perspective, which i think Pirsig favours, life "is an
ocean of suffering". And the entire aim is to escape the cycle of life. This
philosophy is in fact more than 300 years older that Christ.
Whose truth is your truth?
Nishant Taneja
Natalie Shaw wrote:
> 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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> >
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