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From: Fairhaven (legacypr@lucernevalley.net)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2001 - 01:04:45 EDT

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    I would like an explanation of why this message is not being posted on the
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    The information is accurate and is easily verifiable.

    Sincerely

    John LaMuth

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Fairhaven <legacypr@lucernevalley.net>
    To: asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
    Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:20 PM
    Subject: conference abstract

    >Greetings list members;
    >
    > The following abstract was accepted for presentation at the ASA-2000
    >conference at Wenham. In fact, I was assigned the lead-off presentation
    slot
    >at the conference.
    >
    >Unfortunately I was unable to make the cross country trip due to health
    >problems, hence I was forced to cancel my attendance without receiving any
    >further feedback on the abstract.
    >
    >I welcome any open feedback in this regard (albeit belatedly), for I feel
    >its content has much to offer towards an understanding of the recent tragic
    >events in the USA
    >_____________________________________________
    >
    >A Revolution in the Understanding of the Family Values
    >
    >The current interest in family values has undergone a significant revival
    as
    >of late, a trend dramatized by the perceived decline in morals affecting
    >American culture. The traditional descriptions of the family values,
    >however, are typically treated as isolated entities, lacking any meaningful
    >degree of moral connectedness across the board. Fortunately, the dream of a
    >unified ethical and moral system has finally been realized with the first
    >radical revolution in ethical theory in over two thousand years. Take, for
    >example, the cardinal virtues (prudence-justice-temperance-fortitude), the
    >theological virtues (faith-hope-charity-decency), and the classical Greek
    >values (beauty-truth-goodness-wisdom). When additional groupings of
    ethical
    >terms are further added into the mix: the complete multi-level hierarchy of
    >terms emerges in full detail, reproduced in the table immediately below:
    >
    > GLORY-----------PRUDENCE
    > PROVIDENCE---------FAITH
    > GRACE-------------BEAUTY
    > TRANQUILITY------ECSTASY
    >
    >
    > HONOR---------JUSTICE
    > LIBERTY----------HOPE
    > FREE WILL-------TRUTH
    > EQUALITY--------BLISS
    >
    >
    > DIGNITY-------TEMPERANCE
    > CIVILITY---------CHARITY
    > MAGNANIMITY-----GOODNESS
    > LOVE-----------------JOY
    >
    >
    > INTEGRITY----FORTITUDE
    > AUSTERITY------DECENCY
    > EQUANIMITY------WISDOM
    > PEACE----------HARMONY
    >
    >
    > Such superficial resemblances in terms, however, can scarcely claim to
    >be the total picture; for it further proves possible to base this hierarchy
    >of family values entirely within a behavioral foundation; namely, the
    >terminology of operant conditioning proposed by the great American
    >psychologist, B. F. Skinner. Through this purely behavioral style of
    >motivational analysis, the higher virtues and values can alternately be
    >viewed as more advanced metaperspectives on the more basic complement of
    >instinctual states (i.e., reward, punishment, appetite, aversion).
    >_________________________________
    >
    >With Best Regards,
    >
    >John E. LaMuth
    >www.charactervalues.com ***(newly updated)
    >legacypr@sisp.net
    >www.sisp.net/~legacypr/
    >
    >
    >



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