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%IDENTIFYING TRANSCENDENT IDEALS 850630
An ideal is not a transcendent ideal of the people
who do the best job of affirming the ideal thereby
undermine the personal and communal integrity of the
members of the community upon which the ideal depends for
survival and meaning. People who best embody transcendent
ideals do not undermine the personal and communal
integrity of their community. Their transcendent ideals
do not lead them to destroy the community upon which the
ideals depend for survival. Transcendent ideals promote
the long-term survival of those people who most faithfully
embody them.
The ideals which may properly be regarded as
transcendent depend upon the community which is under
consideration. A sub-culture may regard ideals which
serve the special interest of the subculture as
transcendent, even though the ideals may undermine the
integrity of people and communities outside the
subculture. Ideals which advance the welfare of one
subculture at the expense of another culture are not
transcendent ideals if they thereby undermine the personal
and communal integrity of the transcendent community which
embodies all persons affected. Ideals are not
transcendent ideals if they undermine the personal and
communal integrity of the community which embodies all
persons affected by the behavior of those who most
faithfully embody the ideals. Transcendent ideals do not
serve the special interests of a subculture by undermining
the personal and communal integrity of the broader
culture.
Ideals which are not transcendent ideals undermine
personal and communal integrity by leading people in ways
which occasion: misunderstanding, confusion, alienation,
estrangement, resentment, ignorance, arrogance, elitism,
guilt, insults, personal rejections, excommunications,
banishments, secrecy, deception, personal violence, etc.
People who are dedicated with integrity to
transcendent ideals do not seek to defeat people who are
dedicated to less integrative ideals, rather, they seek
ways to integrate such people into an expanded community
which promotes the personal and communal integrity of all
members of the transcendent community.
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