It includes as well their spiritual welfare as realized in their interior consciousness, their social relations to other persons and peoples, and their appreciation and response to their created origins, present dignity and transcendent goal. The search is for an ever more rich appreciation and realization of these in the context of family and civil society, nation and world.
Mutual critique is needed to assure the rigor and balance of the work.
This is first in regular team meetings to discuss the chapters as they are drafted by the individual team members, second in regional meetings with representatives of related teams, and third in extended seminars drawing philosophers from all areas of the world for joint explorations of basic new issues. The effect is a global philosophical process of cultural renewal. It initiates sustained coordinated cooperation between philosophers and with allied sciences. Its goal is to uncover and promote the stirrings of the Spirit in the many cultures, to share this between peoples, and to contribute thereby to the convergent progress of humankind. By overcoming egoism and promoting cooperation it seeks that deep peace which, surpassing all understanding, has formed the basis of the multiple authentic cultures and must be renewed in new ways in a time of global interchange.