By Schubert Ogden
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(Tracking Charles Hartshorne, "The Modern World and a Modern View of God")
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The fundamental decision (optio fundamentalis) is the same for all: whether so to trust in the encompassing whole of reality that one is both free from all things -- oneself and all others -- and free for them; and then whether so to be loyal to the whole as to be loyal to all its parts, accepting them for what they are and thinking and acting accordingly.
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