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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9008071.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.} ========================================================== %REFLEXIVE INTEGRITY WISDOM CHANGE MISTAKE VALUE 900807 A community and its members cannot enjoy personal and communal integrity in the absence of reflexive integrity. For there to be reflexive integrity the community and its members must reflect honestly upon their own experiences and make use of what they know about themselves and their recent experiences to arrive at wise decisions regarding what to do next. In the absence of honest self knowledge it is impossible to make wise decisions. By its very nature reflexive knowledge is not objective knowledge, and cannot be wisely replaced with objective knowledge. People who try to replace reflexive knowledge with objective knowledge, thereby threaten the integrity of their community and its members. The process of replacement begins with simply ignoring reflexive knowledge, due to being preoccupied with objective knowledge. Thus a compulsive preoccupation with objective knowledge constitutes a danger to the integrity of a community and its members. The reflexive knowledge and integrity of a community depends critically upon the patterns of reflection on personal and communal experiences which are passed from generation to generation through family, educational, business, political, religious, and other intimate relationships. How people regard themselves reflexively reflects upon how other people have regarded them. Children learn to view themselves with self confidence or low self esteem in large part in response to how others have regarded them. Children who learn from others to regard themselves with a sense of insecurity, tend to become defensive adults who threaten the integrity of themselves and others. Such adults may be technically very competent and powerful, but they are not wise in their use of their technologies and powers, because they lack reflexive integrity. People who make mistakes and lack reflexive integrity cannot reflect honestly upon their mistakes and learn from their mistakes; and so repeat mistakes over and over. People who make mistakes and enjoy reflexive integrity can reflect honestly upon their mistakes and learn from their mistakes, and so do not repeat mistakes over and over. A community and its members cannot enjoy personal and communal integrity in the absence of reflexive integrity. It is thus essential that each community, and each member of each community, seek to promote reflexive integrity in daily living. A community and its members cannot enjoy personal and communal integrity in the absence of integrity within active and extensive reflexive communications. Any preoccupations which lead to the neglect of open and honest reflexive communications, are a threat to the integrity of a community and its members. Any educational program which leads members of a community to become compulsively preoccupied with any set of interests and concerns to the exclusion of open and honest reflexive communications, constitutes a threat to the integrity of a community and its members. Examples of such a threat to communal integrity may be found in all university graduate schools which train doctoral students to be preoccupied with objective and quantitative pure research and publication, while neglecting to encourage and promote open and honest reflexive considerations and communications within those doctoral programs. Reflexive communications are the means by which the integrity of a community and its members is maintained. Objective communications are inadequate in the absence of open and honest reflexive communications. Objective communications are essential, but not sufficient. Reflexive communications are essential, but not sufficient. For a community and its members to enjoy integrity, there must be open and honest communication of both the reflexive and objective kinds. Neither kind is sufficient. Specialists who believe that their own special kind of communication is sufficient, are a threat to the integrity of the community and its members. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================