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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9212221.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.} ========================================================== %DUTY NATION PROFESSION IDEAL VALUES INTEGRITY 921222 Often people make their highest duty be their loyalty to a leader, family, clan, city, nation, state, etc. without regard to transcendent values, ideals and our need for both personal and communal integrity. They in effect become idolaters; worshipping that which is not God. We need to take care to not fall into the trap of placing greater importance upon leaders, families, clans, cities, nations, states, professions and their like---than is likely to promote personal and communal integrity. If the importance which we place upon them leads us to be unable to resolve conflicts among them---and so leads us into disintegrative unresolved conflicts and wars---then the importance which we place upon them is disintegrative. We need to seek to recognize misleading priorities before they lead us into destruction. Thus we need to develop ways by which to assess how integrative/disintegrative our highest ideals, values and dominant duties are. This assessment cannot be made wisely in keeping with the ideals and values of people who are preoccupied with objectivity and with the primary foci of scientists and scholars who seek to emulate the scientists' paradigm. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================