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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9112121.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.} ========================================================== %DIFFERENCE DISINTEGRATIVE IDEALS VALUES ULTIMATE 911212 One of the greatest challenges to us is that of discriminating effectively between integrative and disintegrative ideals and values. Affirmations of integrative/disintegrative ideals and values occur within a wide variety of contexts: religious, theological, philosophical, scientific, professional, business, nationalistic, addictive, codependent, family, etc. Affirmations of integrative/disintegrative ideals and values occur through a wide variety of media: verbal, ritualistic, traditional, habitual, artistic, militaristic, corporate, visual, musical, dramatic, literary, etc. Affirmations of integrative/disintegrative ideals and values occur overtly, covertly, secretly, coercively, violently, lovingly, etc. Judgements regarding the integrity or lack of integrity of affirmations of ideals and values inevitably are made in terms of other affirmations of ideals and values. We disintegrate as persons and as communities if we make our ultimate judgements in terms of disintegrative ideals and values. We need to attend carefully to what leads to our disintegration; for we may be victims of disintegrative ideals and values whose consequences we try to ignore. To discover the disintegrative consequences of our imprudently chosen ideals and values we need to be open and honest about how our ideals and values lead us to decide and act; and open and honest about the consequences of our actions. The ideal of objectivity is not an integrative guide in such efforts; for the effort is essentially a reflexive effort. We need to be honest about the limitations of some of our most cherished ideals and values; for they do have limited ranges of propriety. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================