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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8712291.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %DISINTEGRATIVE VALUES AND IDEALS 871229 All ideals and values tend to be presented in a positive light. People who affirm ideals do not present them in a negative light. If they do not have a positive light in which to present their ideals and values, they in a kindly way offer other people glasses with which to see the affirmed ideals and values through filtered light which makes the ideals and values appear as if they were in a positive light. Idealists do not always offer to us integrative ideals. Idealism can be grounded in ignorance and confusion, more easily than idealism can be grounded in balanced knowledge and clear thinking. Perfectionists are very idealistic people and are often out of touch with realistic and balanced knowledge. Perfectionists do not deal honestly with their own limitations or with the limitations of other people; they are more concerned with their idealistic ideals and values than they are with their realizations. Ideals and values are not helpfully judged in terms of the public intentions of those who affirm them. Ideals and values are most helpfully judged in terms of the integrative and disintegrative consequences which follow logically and naturally from the structure of the value system in which they find their affirmations. Ideals and values are best judged in terms of their personal incarnations and the fruits of the lives of their incarnations. Apart from their personal incarnations ideals and values can not be helpfully judged. What is important is how and where a system of ideals and values leads the people who affirm them. The unrealistic visions of perfectionists are not a firm basis upon which to appraise the worth of abstract ideals and values. Victims of our various forms of addiction have their own confused systems of ideals and values, and in their view their ideals and values make some kind of sense. They are mislead by their confused system of ideals and values, and need to reach out to others who are not addicted---for guidance in discovering more integrative ideals and values. The worth of the ideals and values which guide addicts can be seen in the fruits of addicts' behavior patterns; provided one wants to see clearly how worthy those conceptions of priorities are. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================