From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 13:52:49 MST
--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
> Mike explains
> >
> > The deist view is essentially that Natural Law is Objective Truth,
> > embedded in the structure and function of the universe, and
> exhibited
> > in our daily lives by much more than gravity and relativistic
> effects,
> > but also biological evolution and the development of intelligence
> and
> > individualistic generalist organisms such as ourselves.
>
> This is disquieting. Some of us, e.g. me, are great believers
> in Objective Truth, and don't even mind the capitals once in a
> while, like in a philosophical discussion.
>
> Oh! It suddenly dawns on me that you are explaining what
> natural laws are, as, for example, Newton's. Well, of course
> they exist! They are objective constraints on what can happen
> in our universe. They are patterns that were here before us
> and (heaven forbid) will be there after us.
Yet the deist/Natural Rightist sees no difference or delamination
between Natural Law i.e. the laws of physics, and the Natural Rights of
Man. Our Natural Rights evolve specifically out of our evolution, via
natural selection, as individualistic social primates with an
inclination toward tool invention and use and exploration of new
habitat.
Transhumanism is a further development of this Englightenment
philosophy. As Greg Burch and Max More have previous said, we see
ourselves as a more honest and consistent evolution of the
Enlightenment philosophers than modern humanists and self described
liberals, much as we see the US revolution as a more honest expression
of that philosophy than the French Revolution. Both modern
humanism/liberalism and the French Revolution tread down paths to
tyranny, genocide, dehumanization of the individual, and pastoral romanticism/mysticism.
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