Families

Transcendents

Idealism, created meaning, and the priority of the person.

Transcendents take mind, meaning, or both to be more basic than a physical script, and they locate the authority to give a life its point in the person. The name is not an honorific and not a claim of mystical rank. It marks a profile in which reality is not merely material and meaning is instituted rather than found. The profile can still be strict about duty or highly concerned with results.

This is not a measure of personality, mental health, intelligence, or character.

• IECDCIAuthor of Experience

  A purpose is authored from lived experience, judged by its fruits, and not reduced to the physical ledger.

• IECLCIVolitional Idealist

  Meaning is made from experience, counted by its results, and not treated as a script written before the person acted.

• IEDDCIBound Visionary

  A personal meaning is created inside limits experience can show, without a claim that the will escaped its causes.

• IEDLCIOpen-Future Visionary

  A purpose may be authored in freedom, instructed by experience, and still forbidden by a duty the author did not cancel.

• IRCDCISystem Builder

  A purpose is constructed by argument, judged by consequences, and set in a reality not finally physical.

• IRCLCISelf-Legislating Idealist

  A purpose is legislated for oneself by reasons, another act was possible, and the purpose remains open to the test of results.

• IRDDCIPrincipled Visionary

  A life’s aim is created by reason and submitted to duties the creator does not regard as their own invention.

• IRDLCISovereign Idealist

  A purpose is given by reason, it could have been withheld, and not every limit on it is the giver’s to lift.