I do not know whether our society can be brought back to believe in
a transcendent order of justice, but of this I am certain: if we who recognize this standard do not act as though we believe in it, then no one will be brought by us to believe in it.
Nevertheless the Christian doctrine
of the relation between the ethics
of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept
of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept
of shariat law versus the
transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea
of the present morality
of class - war leading to the necessary love
of the class-less society
of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining
order and freedom with the continued struggle for social
justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions
of civil codes.