ABSTRACT
A theistic ethic will be inclusive of all nations and peoples if the core of human flourishing remains substantially the same across all historical periods and forms of human culture. Theistic ethic requires both the proper historical conditions as well as the provision of a sufficiently rich, and justly administered, society through which the material goods necessary for a life of well-being and flourishing are made possible. A step in the direction of this notion of community is found in the communitarian critique of liberalism. The criticism of liberalism objects that it leaves the human self in a naked, isolated, and radically untenable individualistic posture, cut off from the very others whose relationships with the self enable it to flourish. The cooperative indirect relations relative to the material foundation of community and the political structures that express them are what constitute a society. Many societies are based on a personal relation motivated by fear.
