There are four key universal values
A universal value is a value that is applicable to every human being on the planet. It is a value whose exercise is essential to the maintenance of life itself. A universal value has an ontological and a teleological aspect.
Ontology is being.
Teleology is destiny or end.
Few things are both ontological and teleological, among them freedom, love, truth and beauty.
These prove their universality in human experience.
Values relate to human beings.
Values are the means by which we pursue the ends of existence: love, freedom, truth and beauty. Values are means to achieve ends. By choosing and exercising values we are can become loving and free. We can be celebrants of truth and beauty united.
Or we can choose to go the other way.
The four universal, active values of Triadic Philosophy are tolerance, helpfulness, democracy and non-idolatry.
These are derived from research done with thousands of young people who were observed to grow in tolerance, helpfulness, democratic behavior and an iconoclastic attitude toward authority during a prolonged exposure to the Gospel of Mark.
The power of these values has been demonstrated since then by their use in Triadic Meditation which operates with an Ethical Index made up of these values. The power of the triad is a major element of the unity that is Triadic Philosophy.
Tolerance is flexibility and strength as well as a disposition to be tolerant, not to judge and to take a broad view of things.
Tolerance enables one to struggle against evil.
Helpfulness is the spectrum of things that actually enables us and others to achieve.
Education. Financial assistance. Advice. A helping hand.
Democracy is the most tolerable form of governance.
Democracy is ideally the the guarantor of the full spectrum of human rights and entitlements as they are progressively defined.
Non-idolatry is an underlying skepticism regarding all human claims and a willingness to submit everything to the authority of truth and beauty and to the cumulative force of the complementary values that represent acts and expressions.
To engage in the exercises that make up practice in Triadic Philosophy, acceptance of these values is key.
