Claim. Pledge 4’s four social goods — freedom, peace, unity, happiness — are not parallel ideals but a strict dependency: unity is foundational, and freedom, peace, and happiness only exist on the basis of unity.
Elaboration. SMM repeatedly orders the four with unity at the base: “You should know that where there is no unity, there is no freedom, happiness, peace or hope. … There is freedom only on the basis of unity. Without it, there is no happiness, peace or hope” (4.3. The world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness, 231-269 1992.6.7). The ground of unity is mind-body and conjugal oneness, broken at the fall: “Where is happiness or peace when your mind and body are disunited? All problems arise on this line. … Communists and people like Marx and Hegel observed that the mind and body struggle, and thus thought that this was the basic aspect of humanity. They did not know that this happened because of the Fall” (242-60 1992.12.27). The pedagogical move is to ground a political ideal-list in an interpersonal-substrate claim: “Peace requires mutual balance, but is there a balance? Are you in accord with your spouse?” (231-269). Pledge 4’s social goods are therefore family-conditional, not abstract.
See also. csg-only-restored-families-can-recite-the-family-pledge, csg-universal-family-encompasses-cain-and-abel-realms