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The
four values of Triadic Philosophy,
taken together and understood,
can do no harm.
Indeed to the extent
that their
universality is made manifest,
they are a blueprint for
an
aesthetically realized world.
The root
triad
Reality, Ethics and Aesthetics
describes the passage of signs (icons)
through the skein of Ethics (indices)
to the
plane of human action
which is Aesthetics (symbol).
It is important to
stipulate that
while Triadic Philosophy aspires
to describe what is true and
beautiful,
the action undertaken
when the triadic process is used
is conscious
thought.
Signs crop up in profusion
within us,
but the use of Reality, Ethics, Aesthetics
requires that we be aware
of the sign (icon) we are considering,
and that we
consciously submit it
to the Ethical (indices) and then
to the sphere of actuality or performance,
the Aesthetic or symbolic realm.
It may sound like a bit much,
but
with practice it rewards,
because it parses with Reality,
with who we are,
with
who we can be.
With this preamble,
the ontological values of
tolerance, democracy,
helpfulness
and non-idolatry,
become the initial dam
in the flow of icon
to
emergence as symbol,
that is to say, to our reality.
These terms are a pristine
unity
made up of three active values
and their root, non-idolatry,
the crown of all
values.
All human thinking takes place
under the beneficent cloud
of mysteries that envelop us all.
The active values interact.
Tolerance cannot trump democracy.
Democracy requires helpfulness.
Helpfulness modifies tolerance,
and so forth.
Together these values lead to
the best and highest state
we can achieve.
That they are not the center of today's ethics,
and our daily
lives,
is not sad. It is a crime.
These ontological values
challenge every soul 24/7
whether perceived or not.
When they are rejected,
they become inoperative
and history suffers.
They are the truth and
the truth cannot be defeated.
