Progressive Ranges: Hierarchical social levels, like person, group, nation, civilization.
There is too much factual knowledge to grasp even a speck of the whole. This makes for an excessive diversity that lacks in coherent unity. With no coherency in the parts, there will be no coherent truth in the whole. Without coherent truth there is only a relative truth. Relative truth makes for contradiction from different viewpoints, perceptions, and perspectives. Contradictions deny a common definition and meaning of truth, morality, justice, and beauty. They also deny common standards, values, principles, and virtues. Uncommon values lead to personal and social conflict and confusion; to the blocking of learning in education, to the disintegration of social unity.
Such personal and social problems result from learning only the factual leaves on the Tree of Knowledge. This causes one to lose sight of unifying principles that are the roots, and the unifying concepts that are the branches. To have common standards and values, that a global theory of knowledge requires, concrete factual knowledge should be unified by abstract concepts, that are unified by abstruse principles, that are unified by symbolic structures. Such principles ultimately derive from an ultimate unity and structure. This ultimate unity is the keystone that holds the whole systematic structure of knowledge together.
An ultimate unity in knowledge is one to which a multiplicity of knowledge coherently relates, and beyond which there is no further knowledge. Thus, God is the ultimate unity in theo-logy, the Ultimate Premise is the ultimate unity in philosophy, and Energy is the ultimate unity in science. A unity beyond the trinity of theology-philosophy-science is the Ultimate of all Ul ...