Values and the Citizenry

The affirmation of ultimate values will be critical in shifting the deepest sense that people have about what governments exist for and how they should function. Ultimate values are…Closed universally accepted and eternally pursued states of being—truth, justice, peace, harmony, beauty, freedom and more. An ultimate value (PH6-L7) is the highest form that purpose can take: it is pure experience and an expression of humanity. (By contrast, a «social value-L5» is a freely shared need-based value serving a specific community.)

The Transcendentalist mode (Stage-6) draws on most of the psychosocial entities where ultimate value is included. The diagram below highlights these within the framework for realizing values within a society (sPH6). Full details, see:Closed Ch.s 10 and 12 in Working with Values: Software of the Mind (1995), available for free download.

  • G2: Convictions are the integrating force in the transcendentalist mode. A conviction is a combination of an ultimate value and a value system (i.e. a coherent set of beliefs that provides understanding).
  • G3: Ideals consist of ultimate values, value system & social values.The inclusion of social values (agreed personal-and-communal needs), makes ideals directly relevant to communities and so enables the last transition to the Communalist mode (Stage-7).
  • G4: Vision is a more complex structure specifying more concretely «what can and will be» when envisaging psychosocial potentials.
  • G5: Popular movements ushering in the Communalist mode are likely to emerge as a response to Transcendentalist ethos problems.
  • G6: The Citizenry will come into existence as the primary regulator of social power that must be responsibly administered by The Government.
  • G7: The Social Order will alter in a range of ways that goes beyond the purely political.

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Originally posted: July 2009; Last updated: 11-Apr-2014