In his 2007 book Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution: How the Integral Worldview Is Transforming Politics, Culture and Spirituality author Steve McIntosh discusses integral spirituality, which he suggests "can bring about the evolution of our culture's overall spirituality through an expanded philosophical understanding of the spiritual natue of the primary values of beauty, truth and goodness."
There have been many attempts by philosophers to provide concise definitions of beauty, truth and goodness:
Thomas Aquinas defined beauty as "unity, proportion and clairy."
Alfred North Whitehead defined truth as "the conformation of appearance to realty."
Immanuel Kant defined goodness by reference to the categorical imperative which says" Act according to those maxims that you could will to be universal law."
Here are some of McIntosh's defenitions:
Values - "goals, ideals, desires, intrinsic qualities, standards of perfection ) serve to energize consciousness and culture and nourish these internal systems with meaningful sustance."
Beauty - "When we look out at the external world around us, we describe its most exquisite features as 'beautiful.' Spirit appears to us in the object world as delicate loveliness, bold drama, and sublime elegance, all of which are forms of beauty."
Truth - "In the internal realm of thoughts and ideas, those which exhibit the most quality are the ones that are the most accurate, the most descriptive of reality and the most useful at providing solutions; when we look for spirit in the subjective realm, it most often looks like truth."
Goodness - "In the intersubjective realm of human relations spirit is revealed through kindness, compassion, fairness, forgiveness, mercy, and justice - actions guided by the value of goodness."
In 2023 Steve McIntosh launched The Developmental Politics Project to promote how developmental philosophy’s perspective "synthesizes and harmonizes values from across the political spectrum. The strategies it uses to widen perspectives and integrate politically opposed viewpoints are neither left, nor right, nor centrist. Its theory of change is that culture and consciousness coevolve when people expand the scope of what they can value."
Here are the sources Robert Reich "currently relys on for the truth":
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