The complete field within reach

How much good belongs within a person’s ethical horizon?

Wholagat names a distinction used by Fidence Path.

Definition

Wholagat

Wholagat is the complete field of agat an individual could affect through present and developable knowledge, resources, and capabilities.

Why this word exists

The distinction ordinary language loses.

Why a separate term is needed

A person needs to distinguish the whole field of good they could affect from the much smaller portion they presently notice or can produce immediately.

The inaccuracy it prevents

Calling it possible good can freeze possibility at current knowledge and ability. Wholagat also includes possibilities that attainable learning, cooperation, resources, and development could open.

Nearest terms—and the difference

Agat: Any impartial good; wholagat is the complete field of agat within a person’s present and developable reach.
Duty: What a person is required to do; wholagat maps the relevant field before particular responsibilities are judged.
Best outcome: A selected result among options; wholagat includes the wider field from which options may become visible.

The distinction it protects

What is possible exceeds what is presently visible.

Wholagat includes possibilities opened by attainable learning, preparation, cooperation, resource development, and improved capability. Discovering a possibility does not create it; discovery makes part of the field visible.

It is a maximal reference, not a result any finite person can completely realize.

In the path

Let the unreachable whole guide the next reachable step.

A person responds by discerning the best direction currently available, developing greater capacity, correcting continuing consequences where possible, and learning without remaining fixed on an irreversible past.