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Well, well - Apparently, Joe and I agree on something - could it be
common ground? The "values" project appears to have some value. <span
class="moz-smiley-s5"><span> :-D </span></span><br>
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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.<br>
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Me, I can work with the notion of knowing my moral positions and
investing my energies in working to be true to those positions.<br>
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And will continue to explore values and my relationship with them.
Perhaps a tad of "enlightened self interest" thrown into the mix.<br>
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On 12/31/2010 7:28 AM, Joe Campbell wrote:
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<div>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, <i>The Encyclopedia of
Philosophy <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/integrity/">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/integrity/</a>></i>.<br>
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"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. <br>
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"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."<br>
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<i>The Encyclopedia of Philosophy </i><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://plato.stanford.edu">http://plato.stanford.edu</a>>
is a great source for philosophical information by the way.<br>
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On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Jeff Harkins <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jeffh@moscow.com">jeffh@moscow.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div> 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.
<h2>Integrity:</h2>
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<h2> is to act according to what is right and wrong.</h2>
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This installment has a video associated with it - check it
out!<br>
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An interesting quote on integrity<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> When what we want to do and what we
ought to do are two different things, character is built
in the choice we make.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> Bill Bennett American
Businessman And Author (born 1956); <br>
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