Men and women have at their disposal an array of resources for generating greater knowledge of truth so that their lives may be ever more human. Among these is philosophy which is directly concerned with asking the question of life’s meaning and sketching an answer to it. Philosophy emerges, then, as one of the noblest of human tasks…
….With its enduring appeal to the search for truth, philosophy has the great responsibility of forming thought and culture, and now it must strive resolutely to recover its original vocation…
…Let philosophers and all teachers of philosophy always strive for truth, alert to the good which truth contains. Then they will be able to formulate the genuine ethics which humanity needs so urgently at this particular time.
POPE JOHN PAUL II1
At This Time of Potential
By Terry P. Anderson & Sandra Maslow Smith
First Printing 2009
CONTENTS
Preface – At This Time of Potential
Introduction – Making Visible Intended Ways of Working
The Truth of Our Oneness, Working Towards Wholeness
Sustaining a Reflective Process
Part 1 – Taking up the Path of Intentionality
Reflecting on Becoming Intentional
Standing in the Stream of Becoming
Keeping Open the Pathway of Love
Part 2 – Becoming Instruments for Love Entering
Reflecting on the Philosophical Teachings Embedded in the Temptation of Christ
Reflecting on the Working of Love
Surrendering to Instrumentality
A True Instrument of Co-Creation
Part 3 – Accessing Going Forward Wisdom
“Our Father” at this Time of Potential
Part 4 – America’s “Yes”
At This Time… This Time of Potential
This Time of Potential… a Time of Great Faith
“Work for All Children” Purposeful Sorting Out Sessions
“Work for All Children” Reflective Work Sessions
The Going Forward Path – Revitalizing America’s Philosophy
1 Fides et Ratio; on the Relationship between Faith and Reason. (Boston: Pauline Books & Media, 1998), 3, 6, and Cf. 106.
