They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of
insights about the nature of being and becoming
human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of
existence and disciplines of social and
human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common
human destiny.