This-essay is a8503211.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %TRANSCENDENT IDEALS FOR RECONCILIATION 850321 As children we grow up among people who are in competition and/or conflict with each other. The people who are most important to us are not always committed to a common set of coherent ideals. Often the people who are most important to us are motivated or driven by desires/ideals which are in direct conflict with each other, and so the people engage in violent conflict on many occasions. Sometimes the violence is moderated by commonly agreed to laws and traditions; other times not. As children we internalize the desires/ideals of those nearest, dearest and most important to us. Often we are led to make their desires/ideals our absolutes; i.e., desires/ideals which are placed beyond doubt and question in our lives. We become unable to thoughtfully examine the wisdom of our childhood choices and decisions---when we absolutised the desires/ideals introjected into us by adults who were in conflict with each other. We thus internalized their conflicts in ways which hide them from our view and examination. To be faithful to those who molded our being---we must not examine the conflicts which rage within us! To seek to find the roots of our distress---we must call into question what we were taught was beyond question! Thus the roots of our own inter personal and international conflicts are hidden from our view. We need transcendent ideals in terms of which to initiate an examination of our internalized conflicts---which are expressed in our inter personal and international conflicts. Without agreement among members of a community as to what such transcendent ideals should be, we will not have the courage to dip into our internal conflicts to begin the process of reconciliation among the desires/ideals which we have mistakenly regarded to be absolute---in spite of the conflicts among them. Without agreement about such transcendent ideals--- our personal and communal integrity are undermined, and we find ourselves hopelessly engaged in conflicts which we do not understand, and from which we can not escape. Our increasing sophistication of power and technology will not resolve such conflicts; they will merely increase the costs to us of continuing to fail to agree upon transcendent ideals in terms of which to begin the process of reconciliation. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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