1. Truth is the most definitive knowledge about and understanding of something that we can have at a given time.
[We employ curiosity, assumptionless observations, and reason to organize evidence and posit truths.]
2. Beauty is the strongest sense we have of the truth of something, and it creates a desire to have more, or even better, endlessly.
[Intuition, conviction, and creativity stimulate and inform our sense of what is beautiful.]
3. Goodness is totally, defensibly the best truth that we can contemplate, embrace, and act upon.
[Truth is beauty. Beauty is truth. In combination these constitute the good.
Faith, belief, and hope are feelings directed toward a something deemed true, beautiful, and good; such feelings transcend our current ability to understand what is, or to accept whatever as it is.
Missing from this big-three constellation of primary and ultimate human pursuits, other than any and every act to negate or contradict their primacy and universal importance, are these.]
4. Being (not doing) and compassion complete the human enterprise.
[In being, one does not act to advance but to gather oneself unto the self and bask in the experience of oneness, of unity.
A healthy self love looks inward but also has the capacity and maturity to extend outward and participate in the being and pursuits of others.]
The challenge
Tests of these "universals" are in specific examples of human endeavor, not excluding those which would seem to belie their applicability and comprehensiveness.
Your turn.
