Politics has many dimensions. At one end of the spectrum is the politics of power and acquisition. At the other end is the politics of vision. One divides and the other unites. There are rich sources from ancient times upon which to draw values and inspiration for a politics of vision. The modern political era as been marked by a dialectic between power politics and the enlightenment ideals of classical liberalism and utopian socialism. Liberal capitalism, which went some distance in attempting to treat