Diana McPartlin (diana@asiantravel.com)
Sun, 7 Dec 1997 20:13:16 +0100
Magnus,
Rather than banging our heads together over every little point, how
about you write your own set of principles and I'll continue to work on
mine. Then we can compare them and see where the similarities are and
take it from there.
Diana
Magnus Berg wrote:
>
> Hi Diana.
>
> I'll be brief.
>
> > 2. The Dynamic-static split
> > The best way to split Quality is into dynamic and static quality.
> > Dynamic quality is experienced as freedom, newness, excellence, fun,
> > beauty. Static quality is experienced as structure, normality, apathy,
> > stability.
>
> DQ is also danger, uncertainty, chaos.
> SQ is also security, certainty, order.
>
> Why not write them in pairs so that it's clear that they complement
> each other. Sometimes one is preferred, sometimes the other.
> For example: freedom - captivity, new - known, danger - security,
> chaos - order, beauty - consistence.
>
> > 6. The hierarchy of morality
> > The purpose of all Quality is to do what is moral and the order of
> > morality from lowest to highest is inorganic, biological, social,
> > intellectual and Dynamic. The static levels also exhibit low quality and
> > high quality patterns within themselves.
>
> I'm still a bit uncertain about comparing DQ to SQ like this. The ordering
> above seems to imply that DQ is a fifth level. DQ always has a right to
> affect all kinds of patterns. You have a moral obligation to test a new
> (Dynamic) idea. But the very existence of static patterns proves that
> they resist Dynamic chaos. DQ in the diagram in SODV is all around the
> static boxes, not only above.
>
> Magnus
>
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