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%IDEAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION 840612
Usually we see conflict in terms of the people who
are in conflict. Yet, the people are in conflict because
they embody ideals which are in conflict. In a sense the
conflicts among people are due to the impediments of
unresolved conflicts among ideals. To resolve
conflicts among people we need to resolve conflicts
among the ideals which the people embody. This
may entail leading people to choose different
transcendent ideals to embody---by helping them to see
that their conflicts are the consequence of imprudent
choices of ideals.
Personal and communal integrity have not often been
openly treated as ideals which should be central to lives
of people and their communities. Yet by raising integrity
to the level of an ultimate concern---much energy
and imagination can be directed towards the challenge
of resolving conflicts among ideals and their people.
We need to promote integrative ideals and their
embodiments.
Integrity as an ideal has not been central to the
history of western thought. Integrity is not one of the
central concepts in terms of which western intellectual
and religious leaders have attempted to integrate their
thinking. Instead dialogue has tended to disintegrate in
arguments over the nature of and the embodiments of
ultimate reality, truth, logic, authority, power, justice,
law, order, and love. The search for ultimates has
diverted attention away for a cooperative search for a
union of personal and communal integrity. What value or
ideal merits respect---if showing it respect helps
to undermine personal and communal integrity? Is there
any value or ideal of such ultimate importance---that it
would be wise to show it ultimate respect at the price of
losing personal and communal integrity? Would showing
such respect be idolatrous?
The search for integrity will entail the development
of supportive integrative ideals and values. Such ideals
and values will focus upon the improvement of open and
honest communication by the creation of fail-safe contexts
in which honesty is not punished, even if the honesty
reveals non-conformal thoughts, feelings, insights,
desires, fears, visions, emotions, etc. The charitable
expansion of freedoms of communication is a supportive
integrative ideal which merits respect. Similar
considerations relate to the ideals of balance, mutuality,
charity, generosity, humility, and forgiveness. The
search for integrity gives meaning to life.
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