The Endeavour Hierarchy

THEE Note: This page is largely technical. The diagrams may help you orient yourself. See the substance in the next Topic.

Features

The Root Hierarchy is about Endeavour-as-a-whole, i.e. the 7 Levels of Endeavour form a framework that contains all other entities derived from the Will. 

Viewed as a whole, the Root Hierarchy is a single domain of Will, also referred to as the Root Domain. Viewed Level by Level, it contains 7 distinct psychosocial domains, referred to as Primary Domains, through which Will, and our humanity, manifest.

This means that:

  • Everything that is «willed» is part of some personal endeavour.
  • No endeavour can exist without someone's will behind it.

This Table summarizes the Domains and their function:

Formulae Domains of
the Will		 Process Name Function within Endeavours
RH-L7
→ PH7		 Willingness Being Willing Sustaining a positive disposition to actualize an endeavour.
RH-L6
→ PH6		 Purpose Intending Determining direction and structure.
RH-L5
→ PH5		 Communication Communicating Asserting the nature of relevant realities.
RH-L4
→PH4		 Experience Experiencing Using your inner states as a reference gauge.
RH-L3
→PH3		 Change Changing Fitting yourself and your endeavour to the environment.
RH-L2
→PH2		 Inquiry Inquiring Getting knowledge relevant
to choices.
RH-L1
→PH1		 Action Doing Proceeding practically so as
to alter actual reality.

Position in THEE: Root Hierarchy

Formula: RH

Formal Name: Hierarchy of Personal Endeavour: the concrete manifestation of volition or effort.

Alternate Name: Levels of Will. (Because Will = Root, this name automatically fits the Root Hierarchy.)

Misleading Name: Attempt—viewed as an aspect of RL7: Willingness.

Function: The ceaseless effort of every person to live as a human being.

Properties: Endeavour is the source of the myriad manifestations of willed phenomena in the psychosocial world. Because of its differentiation into Levels/Domains, endeavour is experienced as the concrete manifestation of Will.

Taxonomic Relationships: Looked at from above, endeavour is the manifest result of emanation from will. Looked at from below, endeavour is the manifest result of condensing all human elements in the Taxonomy.

The Hub gives brief details about THEE terms, forms and processes mentioned here.

Sharpening the Focus

There is an extraordinary complexity of structure hidden within the Root Levels. Each Level has the quality of a complex domain. In exploring the domain, I found that understanding the Root Level via its emanation as a Primary Hierarchy made it easier to work with the Root Levels themselves as unitary entities.

If you do the same, you are less likely to get lost or confused by their more differentiated aspects, which belong deep within the Taxonomy. You can use the Table of Contents to see and access posted frameworks found within domains defined by Primary Hierarchies.

The Hierarchy of Endeavour (RH) has its own complex structures, each with specific properties.

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The unique capability of emanating the Primary Hierarchies will not be examined. Primary Hierarchies and all structures that flow from them will be left for examination in other Satellites.

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Primary Hierarchies emanated by Levels in the Root Hierarchy

Categories for the Entity-Levels

It is rather obvious that the entity-levels within endeavour are very different. Nevertheless, we need to formulate the most relevant differences as precisely as we can. Precision will allow us to discover and develop Root-derived frameworks with a degree of confidence.

Here are four categories (extracted from the previous Properties list) which should permit useful and unequivocal discrimination:

  • The external/public manifestation.
  • Benefit sought.
  • Reasons for engaging with the entity-level.
  • Reasons for refusal to activate the entity-level.

Originally posted: 27-Jan-2011; Last updated: 13-Feb-2014.