Re: [lojban] beyond good and evil

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:16 PM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 July 2010 20:58, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It seems to me like the abstract concept of virtue (lo ka vrude) is
>> fundamentally different from a specific event of something being virtuous
>> (lo nu vrude) which are both different things, I think, from a thing being a
>> virtuous entity (lo vrude).
>
> I can see that {lo vrude} may be differentiated from {lo ka vrude} and {lo
> nu vrude} for practical reasons. But how is {lo ka vrude} so significantly
> different from {lo nu vrude}? Both are abstract in that they don't refer to
> a concrete individual object. And {lo nu vrude} isn't necessarily a
> *specific* event of something being virtuous, just like {lo nu klama} can
> mean any kind of event of going. {lo nu vrude} can even be conceptual or
> non-factual, just like {lo nu mi ricfu traji} can refer to an imaginary
> event.
>

  I would even go so far as to think that we were talking here about
si'o -- the
CONCEPT of good and evil, but I could be wrong, as I've never read the book.

      --gejyspa

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