--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:43 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:11 AM, authfriend wrote: > >> > >>> The "grain of the evolution of the Kosmos" sounds an > >>> awful lot like a "standard," then. > >>> > >>> It also sounds a lot like action in accord with the laws > >>> of nature. > >> > >> Well not really because people at different stages of development > >> will experience and act that out differently. > >> > >> An extreme example might be the ethnocentric or religio-centric > >> stance which easily says "these people don't believe as I do, > >> therefore I can set off a bomb, kill the heathens and I will go to > >> heaven and screw virgins." Or the more western stance "abortion is > >> evil, therefore it's OK to bomb abortion clinics and the baby > >> killers within them." > >> > >> People at a more global-centric Ethos which is beyond religion > >> will find this Ethos entirely unacceptable. > > > > But again, this implies a standard of some kind whose > > values are "better than" those of conventional morality. > > Ethics and morality are not necessarily the same.
Exactly my point. The "global-centric Ethos" implies a standard of some kind whose values are "better than" those of conventional morality. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
