Truth, Goodness, Beauty?

What categories of being would we need to measure the SDGs or even a law (e.g., the EU Commission's AI Act / the quality of an algorithm / the question of any „Meta“) or so-called democratic, humanistic or European values?

What kind of values (criteria and parameters) measure the concept (term & intention) of freedom, legitimacy or justice in terms of their independence and objectivity? And are there supreme and true values of being with an unchanging range of importance?

Is it conceivable that even the criticism of journalists or the real, practical status of a universal declaration of human rights in the world or in institutions could or should be evaluated according to the criteria and parameters of truth, goodness and beauty in terms of its situation or basic quality?

And what about religions, social networks or artificial intelligence and their respective concepts of meaning, justice and light? Money as a central influence is not the problem. The problem is that many people hoard or hold on to their money because the evaluation standards are still shifted and decoupled from the associated idea of utility and advantage, and classical values such as truth, goodness and beauty are often not yet prioritized as a foundation for description/evaluation and decision-making.

Democracy, despite being one of the best forms of government so far, has not yet proven that it can base its consciousness on the highest and truest values of being. Greed for profit, austerity and the idea of financial freedom as a panacea do not yet lead to greater objectivity.

Catastrophe alerts, shaking or nodding your head is not yet the greatest possible confirmation of a concept or even the axiom that „ignorance (not-knowing) is much richer than knowledge“.

“I don't know what to say about that” is hopefully an indication of possible development. It is our experience that serious and open questions in this direction are rarely asked at the moment.

We want to change that and show how a ‘value index’ can be applied across sectors and borders, beyond local, regional, national, or international—often self-referential—cultural codices, and how to create a responsible, inclusive (at the same time not flattening down) and value-based bird's-eye view (real meta-perspective / idea and position of a ‘Bird Eye’ / ‘musical evaluation matrix’) .

We are developing this with partners from Amsterdam and Lviv here -> www.esrcf.eu

As an introduction and orientation (App Store and Google Store: www.europeansilkroad.app)

Author: Jan Moritz Onken I CF_jmo_23.10.2025 I Vienna