From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 17:57:24 GMT
NOTA BENE!! In the said example above intellects S/O value
(objectivity-over-subjectivity) is plain to see, so plain that I wonder
how anyone can avoid seeing it. Just as obvious is emotions as the
social "expression" and reason as intellect's, and in light of the
dependency issue one sees emotions' role as what underpins
reason. Why you consider this aspect of the MOQ as imperfect is
very strange.
DM: I agree that SOM, which implies only the distinction, generally
becomes the value "objectivity-over-subjectivity" but this is not
true of the great German idealist tradition that is the other way round and
has a great deal to say about reason and is more the concern of European
post-modernism than the "objectivity-over-subjectivity" that is really the
value of modern secular techno-scientific society. I think that your formual
intellect=SOM I find very odd when I have been educated mainly in the German idealist
tradition in the humanities but with dualism turned materialist in the sciences. I
agrre very much with Pirsig with respect to science, but there is a big tradition in the
European humanities (also some US pragmatism) that is not based on the
"objectivity-over-subjectivity" value.
We have been happy in Europe to talk alot ion the humanties about the
subjective-experiencing-self over the objective-groundless-limited-sciences.
regards
David M
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