1. Looking Back and Looking Ahead
The challenge posed at the end of the preceding discussion of fourth-dimensional value was this: How, if at all, might we access the fourth dimension of value from the limited points of view and forms of life of the first three dimensions of value in which we necessarily find ourselves as finite beings?
As it turns out, this was the problem faced by the retreatants in the section on Ethics— that is, those who stayed behind at the retreat to search for objective values after others had left. These retreatants were frustrated by the failure of those at the retreat to reach agreement about which ways of life were objectively good and right because they were arguing from different points of view and could not agree. But unlike those who left the retreat because they did not believe there was any objective good or right to be seeking, these retreatants had not given up the belief that there was an objective good and right to be seeking and they stayed in order to continue the search for it.