ABSTRACT
One's personal worldview is a very basic concept containing all that he or she holds as good, true, and beautiful about existence in the world. The first of the theoretical devices is the personal worldview imperative: All people must develop a single comprehensive and internally coherent world-view that is good and that we strive to act out in our daily lives. The second of the theoretical devices is the shared-community worldview imperative: Each agent must contribute to a common body of knowledge that supports the creation of a shared-community worldview through which social institutions and their resulting policies might flourish within the constraints of the essential core commonly held values. The third theoretical construct is an imaginative construction that extends community membership to those beyond the conventional boundaries of their micro and macro groups. To intellectually grasp this aspect of community membership, we need to import a new concept: the extended community is one in which the agent is remotely connected.
