[Vision2020] Installment 16: Integrity

[Jeff Harkins]

  Well, well - Apparently, Joe and I agree on something - could it be 
common ground?  The "values" project appears to have some value. :-D

Just as philosophers have had a discourse about "integrity" (for as long 
as forever), we could probably exhaust many hours rooting around this 
topic.  And all to the good.

Me, I can work with the notion of knowing my moral positions and 
investing my energies in working to be true to those positions.

And will continue to explore values and my relationship with them.  
Perhaps a tad of "enlightened self interest" thrown into the mix.

On 12/31/2010 7:28 AM, Joe Campbell wrote:
> This seems wrong. To act in accordance with what is right or wrong is 
> to be moral or ethical. But being moral or ethical is not equivalent 
> to having integrity. Here is a revealing paragraph from another 
> on-line source, /The Encyclopedia of Philosophy 
> <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/integrity/>/.
>
> "Integrity is one of the most important and oft-cited of virtue terms. 
> It is also perhaps the most puzzling. For example, while it is 
> sometimes used virtually synonymously with ‘moral,’ we also at times 
> distinguish acting morally from acting with integrity. Persons of 
> integrity may in fact act immorally—though they would usually not know 
> they are acting immorally. Thus one may acknowledge a person to have 
> integrity even though that person may hold importantly mistaken moral 
> views. When used as a virtue term, ‘integrity’ refers to a quality of 
> a person's character; however, there are other uses of the term.
>
> "One may speak of the integrity of a wilderness region or an 
> ecosystem, a computerized database, a defense system, a work of art, 
> and so on. When it is applied to objects, integrity refers to the 
> wholeness, intactness or purity of a thing—meanings that are sometimes 
> carried over when it is applied to people. A wilderness region has 
> integrity when it has not been corrupted by development or by the 
> side-effects of development, when it remains intact as wilderness. A 
> database maintains its integrity as long as it remains uncorrupted by 
> error; a defense system as long as it is not breached. A musical work 
> might be said to have integrity when its musical structure has a 
> certain completeness that is not intruded upon by uncoordinated, 
> unrelated musical ideas; that is, when it possesses a kind of musical 
> wholeness, intactness and purity."
>
> /The Encyclopedia of Philosophy /<http://plato.stanford.edu> is a 
> great source for philosophical information by the way.
>
>
> On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com 
> <mailto:jeffh at moscow.com>> wrote:
>
>> Please excuse the delay in Installment 16 - we had numerous power 
>> outages here in the hinterland.  I will do my best to respond to mail 
>> tomorrow.
>>
>>
>>     Integrity:
>>
>>
>>>     is to act according to what is right and wrong.
>>>
>> This installment has a video associated with it - check it out!
>>
>>> http://www.values.com/inspirational-stories-tv-spots/78-Reach
>>
>>
>> An interesting quote on integrity
>>
>>> When what we want to do and what we ought to do are two different 
>>> things, character is built in the choice we make.
>>
>>>     Bill Bennett American Businessman And Author  (born 1956);
>>
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