The Future of Flourishing: Toward a Dialectical Spiritual Realist Social Ontology

The source presents a speculative treatise on social ontology, proposing a framework termed "dialectical spiritual realism" (DSR) that reinterprets the Christian doctrine of the Trinity to model the ideal structure of a flourishing society. This framework defines social reality through the perichoretic, or mutually indwelling, relationship between three irreducible dimensions: Structure, Agency, and Ideology. The author analogically maps these to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, arguing that their interdependence constitutes the generative mechanism for social transformation, which is conceptualised as a secularised form of theosis (developmental movement towards participation in the Good). The text positions DSR as a normatively thickened extension of critical realism and a philosophical grounding for the principles of Catholic Social Teaching, offering a mechanism for analysing social change through the recognition of "structured real absence" (sin) and the emergence of resurrectional rupture (novel, dialectical change).Critique: https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/14/solidarity-as-a-local-moral-grammar/