Fundamental Structural Hierarchies

PsH6: Realizing Values

Background

The Purpose Domain is where the structural hierarchy form was first discovered and developed in the 1980s. Its details are to be found in Ch. 10 and Ch.12 of Working with Values (1995).

The thumbnail at right can be used as a constant reminder of the framework.
Note: ClosedSmall modifications have been made to those findings since then (e.g. cf. thumbnail with Master Figure 28), and this particular analysis identified another small error.

The requirement groupings are:

G1: Accepting Responsibility
G2: Specifying Constraints
G3: Promoting Improvement
G4: Sustaining Achievement
G5: Creating Organisation
G6: Channeling Power
G7: Exercising Membership

There is also an oscillating duality that has not been formally developed:

Odd-numbered groupings: individually-dominated and differentiating.
Even-numbered groupings: socially-dominated and integrating.

As each grouping is considered in the Check section below, the goal is to focus down on a possible sharp alteration in the focus, not to collect all evidence or summarize all findings. In each case, a relevant Master-Table from Working with Values is provided. For full details, download Ch. 10 and Ch.12.

ClosedCheck Each Grouping

G1: Accepting Responsibility

Master-Table 31

This requirement must be individually activated because inner inclinations only become operative when fixed as a specific goal or value, and holding a purpose of any sort entails being responsible for it.

Groups may control values but use of those values ultimately depends on each person.

G2: Specifying Constraints

Master-Table 32

This requirement must be socially demonstrated because directions exist in a social setting. They are based in a connection between what is important in that setting and how that constrains the activity of individuals.

Directions typically require cooperation and a recognition of joint responsibility. Alternatives are discussed and objections handled to produce a usable authoritative specification.

Re Conviction:Closed Master-Table 32 has "meditation" as the method for gaining agreement and this now seems an error. The likely social method is adaptation. A person must adapt the ultimate value to the relevant value-system in the social context so that the conviction is socially intelligible and usable.

G3: Promoting Improvement

Master-Table 33

This requirement must be socially demonstrated because improvement relates to a social body or the social context. People, never just a single individual, must be mobilized in a process that is inherently political.

Drives are about installing desired values despite resistance, so it is a social process even if individuals are being expected to change as a result.

G4: Sustaining Achievement

Master-Table 34

This requirement must be individually activated because all functioning pertains to a defined individual—whether a person, an organization, a department, a social body, an agency, or a government.

Neither outsiders nor the social milieu can function on behalf of an entity or do the necessary work on its vision, culture, growth and operations.

G5: Creating Organisation

Master-Table 37

This requirement must be individually activated because it generates embodiments of autonomy: enterprises, authorities and movements. These have to be self-sufficient, self-developing and purpose-based.

While the social context must provide a license to function, the context does not form the entity and the entity's functioning itself is not controlled.

G6: Channeling Power

Master-Table 39

This requirement must be socially demonstrated because no individual can own or control the citizenry or the government in a society. These guardians of sovereignty are socially constituted and legitimated: the former by conventions, common will and legal qualification; and the latter by a constitution, laws and/or long-standing practices.

Sovereignty is the supreme collective power of a society.

G7: Exercising Membership

This requirement must be socially demonstrated as a possibility. While membership must be individually claimed and activated, that is only possible if the social order already exists—and that is a communal matter.

No single individual can create membership of a social order, but no social order can exist without individual members: it is a reciprocal relationship.

The Duality

From this review-based investigation, it appears that requirements in realizing values are either individually activated or socially demonstrated. «Individually» is used rather than «personally» to accommodate artificial bodies with a social identity, like formal organisations.

The A BB AA BB pattern discovered in PH'3CsH is therefore confirmed in PsH6, but the phrases that suited clarifying compatibility, private and public, while not wholly inappropriate, do not adequately capture the phenomena.

This analysis means that the pattern, whose taxonomic significance and function remain to be determined, extends beyond the spiral-derived class of structural hierarchies.


PsH7: Attempting the Impossible

Background

The fundamental structural hierarchy in the Willingness Domain is the most recently developed.

The thumbnail at right can be used as a constant reminder of the framework.

The requirement groupings are:

G1: Instil Hope
G2: Express Determination
G3: Develop Endurance
G4: Mobilize Relationships
G5: Declare Capabilities
G6: Invoke Ideals
G7: Release Energies

The oscillating duality is:

Odd-numbered groupings: assertion directed outwards and operating independently
Even-numbered groupings: assertion directed inwards and requiring social confirmation.

As each grouping is considered in the Check section, the goal is to focus down on a possible sharp alteration in the focus, not to collect all evidence or summarize all findings. In each case, links are provided to the relevant topics to enable a check on the conclusion reached.

ClosedCheck Each Grouping

G1: Instil Hope

Details.

This requirement must be personally activated because the goal is to alter the person's inner state. There is a requirement for genuineness and the outward assertion of autonomy.

G2: Express Determination

Details.

This requirement must be socially demonstrated because it is about everyone becoming clear and convinced about the promise of continuity.

G3: Develop Endurance

Details.

This requirement must be socially demonstrated because although a property of a person, it only becomes meaningful when it persists in the face of obstacles and is visible to others.

G4: Mobilize Relationships

Details.

This requirement must be personally activated because it involves finding and activating others, who are not necessarily involved as a group. The protection of balance is a private matter.

G5: Declare Capabilities

Details.

This requirement must be personally activated because all forms of drive are personally owned and remain relevant regardless of others.

G6: Invoke Ideals

Details.

This requirement must be socially demonstrated because outsiders determine finally whether standards have been reached or whether conversion to new ideas has occurred.

G7: Release Energies

Details.

This requirement must be socially demonstrated because serving is about what others experience and perceive to be occurring.

The Duality

From the above, it appears that requirements in attempting the impossible are either personally activated or socially demonstrated.

The A BB AA BB pattern—discovered in PH'3CsH, confirmed in other Spiral-derived structural hierarchies and in PsH6—is here further confirmed in PsH7. The phrases that suited clarifying compatibility, private and public, while not wholly inappropriate, do not adequately capture the phenomena.

The presence of the pattern in a second fundamental structural hierarchy suggests that it will apply in all Primary Domains. A further check below in the Root Domain is likely to be positive ... but let us see.


RsH: Creativity in Endeavours

Background

The Root Domain of Will generates a framework for endeavour (RH), and that leads to the framework of creativity (RsH).

The thumbnail at right can be used as a reminder of the framework.

The requirement groupings are:

G1: Use Willpower
G2: Deepen Conviction
G3: Focus Enthusiasm
G4: Inject Commitment
G5: Muster Perseverance
G6: Allow Immersion
G7: Face Challenges

The oscillating duality is complex:

Odd-numbered groupings use an inner-focus for experiences with an outer-focus for products.
Even-numbered groupings use an outer-focus for experiences with an inner-focus for products.

As each grouping is considered in the Check section, the goal is to focus down on a possible sharp alteration in the focus, not to collect all evidence or summarize all findings. In each case, links are provided to the relevant topics to enable a check on the conclusion reached.

ClosedCheck Each Grouping

G1: Use Willpower

This requirement must be personally activated because the source of will is within and others are not involved. Each monad is a conduit whose functioning is wholly a matter for the person.

Details.

G2: Deepen Conviction

This requirement must be socially demonstrated because it is about expressing a confidence in social settings so that your credibility is developed and perceived as deserved.

Details.

G3: Focus Enthusiasm

This requirement must be socially demonstrated because it involves being visible, obtaining endorsement, being recognized, and attracting interest. The goal is to generate support.

Details.

G4: Inject Commitment

This requirement must be personally activated because this is about throwing yourself into the project. Commitment is an expression of willingness and its injection is both conscious and unconscious. The amplifiers all activate personal resources.

Details.

G5: Muster Perseverance

This requirement must be personally activated because perseverance depends on self-discipline and comes from within.

Details.

G6: Allow Immersion

This requirement must be socially demonstrated. While the person must allow immersion, this develops as part of the creative process rather than being personally activated. Outsiders will be observing and asking whether there is the necessary preoccupation or the worthwhile experimentation ... and all components in line with the qualifiers.

Details.

G7: Face Challenges

This requirement must be socially demonstrated because a personally significant problem or question must be recognized and made the basis for personally activating willpower-G1. Others will distinguish between genuinely rising to a challenge and just complying or a grandiose pretence.

Details.

The Duality

From the above, it appears that requirements in creativity in endeavours are either personally activated or socially demonstrated.

The A BB AA BB pattern—discovered in PH'3CsH, confirmed in other Spiral-derived and Primary Domain structural hierarchies—is here further confirmed in RsH.

The phrases that suited clarifying compatibility, private and public, while not wholly inappropriate, do not adequately capture the phenomena.


The pattern has now been shown to extend to the fundamental structural hierarchies in the Primary and Root Domains.

Originally posted: 6-Nov-2026.