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%DISINTEGRATIVE IDEAL VALUES PRINCIPLES DESCRIPTION 970325
Our personal and communal integrity depend greatly
upon how we prioritize our ideals, values, principles and
other operating guidelines for life. If disintegrative
ideals, values and/or principles are lifted up in
unbalanced and idolatrous ways, and made of
ultimate importance---they undermine the essential balance
which we need to maintain among all ideals, values and
principles.
If we become compulsively preoccupied with ideal
forms and con-form-ity to ideal forms --- we are likely
to lose respect for individual unique creatures
and creations. Instead, we will be likely to seek to
discover, form-ulate and worship: ideal forms,
descriptions, laws, prescriptions, proscriptions,
values, principles and guidelines --- which we regard
as utterly transcendent of all particular unique
creatures and creations. Then we are unlikely to
respect unique individual people and other creatures
which have different/unique natures, desires, fears,
dispositions, and potentialities. The drive is likely
to be towards conformity --- rather than towards
creativity; towards control --- rather than towards
liberation; towards "respectability" --- rather than
towards personal and communal integrity.
Fanatical dedication to the promotion of what we
regard as being eternal, transcendent, and ideal forms --
-leads tragically to: imbalance, intolerance,
coercive conformity, arrogance, self-righteousness,
violence, alienation, estrangement, ex-
communications and a multitude of evil personal
relationships with disintegrative fruits --- unto
the sixth and seventh generation. It is not enough
to be dedicated, faithful, loyal, sacrificial and
energetic. Supporters of disintegrative dictators
have demonstrated how inadequate such "virtues" are in
the absence of other essential virtues.
Individual/isolated virtues are not worthy of
ultimate concern and sacrifice --- in the absence of
an integrative balanced spectrum of other essential
virtues. For personal and communal integrity to prevail
there must be integrity in regards to a
coherent/balanced set of essential virtues---none of
which is dominant over others.
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