From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 23 2005 - 09:02:04 GMT
Hi All,
A brief speculation.
If the sense of value is the primary sense, from which the static patterns
of the traditional five senses are derived (the biological level);
and
If emotions don't fit neatly into the four static patterns, and therefore
cannot be simply equated with the biological level;
and
If emotions are essential to decision making (ie the discernment of value)
then
Is there not a large amount of overlap, if not equivalence, between the
'sense of value' and our emotional reaction to something?
In other words, are not emotions, as we experience them, simply the major
way in which we describe Quality? And that the refinement of our emotional
nature (which the western tradition, stoicism to Christianity etc, has
always insisted as the essence of the good life) is in fact the Tao of
Quality?
Sam
I loved your master perfectly
I taught him all that he knew.
He was starving in some deep mystery
like a man who is sure what is true.
(Leonard Cohen)
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