Preliminary Modelling
The Story so Far
So far, we have clarified and formulated the following:
- A workable conception of government and politics, that clarifies the centrality of gaining and using power in society.
- Distinctive universal ways that we make ethical choices.
- . Politics is about obligations on society and ethics is about individual obligations. The former is a context for the latter.
- The unit of significance for .
- A view that politics can evolve and improve within societies.
- The enlightened goal of politics, which is about maturity and not utopia.
- Why improving political institutions is a matter for the people, not the rulers.
I can now consider how to the transform so as to understand .
Setting up the Model
and are both about obligation. for persons can be converted into for societies by looking at the in a new holistic way. This involves working out a specially designed Table of Typology Essences (TET) as explained in the next topic and those that follow.
Here is a summary of the move that the TET enables:
| Focus | The Person | The Society |
| Power | Integrity-based | Consensual &/or coercive |
| Delegation | Not permitted | Required |
| Quality | Content - method | Context - institution |
| Relations amongst Types/Modes | Co-existence accepted to manage antipathy. |
Cumulative incorporation to enable maturation. |
While , being methods, are prone to generating passionate arguments and conflicts between people, , being values, are more general, inclusive and easily accepted (in principle).
Different methods cannot be combined for practical reasons, but different values can be. Simple inspection reveals the presence of relevant social values embedded within each of the .
Examples
The steps in understanding holistically will be as follows:
- Step 1: Determine necessary axes in the Typology Essences Table (TET).
- Step 2: Plot the on the TET.
- Step 3: Analyse quadrants to understand antagonisms and affinities.
- Step 4: Clarify differences between lying on each diagonal.
The TET is a way to view all the simultaneously. It becomes a scaffold for appreciating how the can be progressively cumulated.
What is to come, the story of , is about the progressive incorporation of each of the into society via social institutions. Each provides new values essential for that particular in society's maturation.
The inquiry task will involve clarifying how each :
- can provide governance and institutions that benefit people generally
- can ensure commonality and cohesion amongst the populace
- can handle individual differences and inter-personal interactions
- necessarily entails certain civic values and virtues
Technical Note on Types & Modes for Spirals
Read more about Typologies and Spirals in The Hub
. The nature of the Principal Typology and Spiral Complex is currently being examined in in more detail in the Architecture Room.
This is a brief abstract summary to explain why the preliminary task is to develop a TET.
- All Types have a content and a context.
- Type-Contents are methods used within a relevant social situation for an entity (i.e. person, group, organization or society).
- Type-Contexts contain or imply values justifying the methods for the entity.
- The set of any Type's contextual values are called a Mode. Having all Modes operative simultaneously is desirable but does not occur spontaneously.
- The TET enables all Types and hence all Modes to be represented on a relevant field of psychosocial reality.
- The Mode that emerges from Type 3 is spontaneously present and serves as the starting point i.e. Mode-1/Stage-1.
- The entity context can strengthen over time by incorporating new Modes in a series of discontinuous Stages.
- Values are cumulative; earlier mode-values may be adapted, but nothing that has been won by effort is ever lost.
When the progress is plotted on a TET (Typology Essences Table), the result is a Spiral trajectory showing discontinuous Stages of development. There are two Cycles in any Spiral: Stage-1 is entered twice and the final (third) re-entry completes the maturation process.
- Start with Step 1: Determining the psychosocial essences of ethical choice.
Originally posted: July 2009; Last updated: 27-Feb-2014