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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Subject: Re: Omnicient
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.114922.3173@panix.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:49:22 GMT
- References: <1992Nov8.055610.26849@infonode.ingr.com> <nyikos.722049541@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Nov18.150114.1039@panix.com> <1720@esl.ESL.COM>
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- In <1720@esl.ESL.COM> markwc@barney.esl.com (Mark Christiansen) writes:
-
- >Why is there a correlation between knowledge and perfection? Isn't
- >perfection living the best you know how? If I gain knowledge I can
- >only become less perfect or stay the same if I don't change the way I
- >live and knowledge about what others do doesn't change my level of
- >perfection.
-
- You are describing moral perfection. There are other perfections.
-
- I suppose that a thing is a perfect thing of its kind if it realizes
- all the good a thing of that kind is capable of realizing. Since
- knowledge is a good, a thing that is capable of knowledge becomes more
- perfect as its knowledge increases.
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "Alles Erworbne bedroht die Maschine, solange
- sie sich erdreistet, im Geist, statt im Gehorchen, zu sein." (Rilke)
-