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- Subject: A normative CSG???
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- From Greg Williams (930101 - 2)
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- >Ed Ford (930101:1305)
-
- >If PCT teaches
- >anything, it is that the whole system should work as an intigrated
- >entity such that it will ultimately achieve harmony within itself
- >and, at the same time, satisfy all of its intended goals.
-
- I think you left out a clause between "... it is that" and "the whole
- system..." -- a clause to the effect that "if the system (organism) is to
- satisfy such and such conditions." Otherwise you will be presuming that
- whatever those conditions are, CSG sanctions them. But that is an ethical
- point of view which I believe (that word, again!) is not supported by the
- tenets of PCT. With the clause in, you would be saying that CSG teaches a way
- (based on PCT tenets, of course) in which the conditions -- whatever they are
- -- can be obtained, while remaining neutral (as natural science must) about
- the desirability of those conditions. But maybe you DO think that CSG is or
- should be (more ethics!) a PRESCRIPTIVE organization?
-
- As ever,
-
- Greg
-