The Importance of Metaphysical Understanding

T. Lo: Our ethics and our individual politics don't mean anything unless the ultimate horizon is something like universal peace and harmony. We only discover about values here and now, as I said, in relation to nature, to the earth, to local religious traditions. And yet, if there isn't an onlook towards the universal, this is what monotheism is about. T. Lo: Religious leaders need to stand up and start talking in these more serious public terms.