Jenyar said:
Would the parametric world provide some reference, like Plato's "forms"? Or is it so separate as to have no bearing on the strategic? If there is any relation, would that make the strategic world necessarily parametric (i.e. ruled by parameters) - at least in principle?
In other words, do we play by parametric rules, even though we don't play on a parametric field (since "playing" is a strategic activity)?
Our moral rules cannot be but parametric; that is, in our moral rules, we envision an ideal situation -- by "ideal" I don't mean 'most positive'; by "ideal" I mean a situation where
all the parameters are known. All this comes from having to limit ourselves somehow when we formulate principles.
But in life, in the struggle to survive, we meet circumstances that may not have been foreseen in our rules -- and we have to apply combinations of rules, we must set priorities. Sometimes, we even act against some of our rules -- when we judge that blindly adhering to the rules would be our sure demise. -- And when we do all this, we act strategically.
Like: only when our autonomy excludes God (let's call Him the "first strategist") from the strategic environment - playing in a two dimensional field in stead of a three dimenional one - does acting out our autonomy become scary, because we derive our ethical judgment from His mind ("in Him we live and move").
Hold on, I'm not sure I understand this.
As far as I see, you are implying that
all men already know that they derive their ethical judgement from His mind. This implication is not true. Not all men *know* where they derive their ethical judgement from. Some just have a "feeling for justice", but no clearly nameable justification for this feeling (which is odd, but common).
The reason why I think acting on our autonomy is scary is much simpler: Making ethical judgements yourself sets you apart from the "usual rules", apart from the "crowd" -- and it is this being apart that is scary.
When everybody around drinks alcohol, and you refuse -- you have thereby set yourself apart from them, and you are scared of the consequences, a possible isolation and rejection by those people around you.