To finally complete the web trilogy - today marks the launch of The Story Of Metaphysics. The website is very much a prequel and delves into the history of metaphysics and how our current metaphysics was shaped. It should provide further context for the need of a new Metaphysics which takes what's good about our current one and improves on it.
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Rather than explain the benefits of the Metaphysics of Quality on this site I decided to create two new sites which give an overview of Subject-Object Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Quality respectively.
The first site on Subject-Object Metaphysics has been launched and can be found by going to som.is
There are many benefits of the Metaphysics of Quality. A question I’m often asked when explaining the MOQ to others is:
‘Why should I believe that value is the source of all things?’
The first response to this question is that unlike the belief that either subjects or objects are at the base of reality – value isn’t something we believe, value is something we experience. Therefore the best way to see if value is at the source of all experience is to try this idea for yourself and to see if it indeed does have any quality. So really the main reason to see value/morality as the most fundamental thing in the universe is that it’s better and more beautiful than if we don’t. There is no reason why we currently insist that either Objects or Subjects are fundamental in the universe. Like all beliefs this belief is itself open to questioning. So what’s better is if we see value/morality as fundamental in the universe and not either subjects or objects.
The Metaphysics of Quality, in particular, is a far superior and more eloquent way of understanding experience. This is because it provides a better conceptual framework for understanding a whole host of problems which exist when we simply use a Subject, Object Metaphysics that neglects the importance of values or morality.
Over the next several posts I’ll be outlining some of these benefits..