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This-essay is a9703251.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %DISINTEGRATIVE IDEAL VALUES PRINCIPLES DESCRIPTION 970325 Our personal and communal integrity depend greatly upon how we prioritize our ideals, values, principles and other operating guidelines for life. If disintegrative ideals, values and/or principles are lifted up in unbalanced and idolatrous ways, and made of ultimate importance---they undermine the essential balance which we need to maintain among all ideals, values and principles. If we become compulsively preoccupied with ideal forms and con-form-ity to ideal forms --- we are likely to lose respect for individual unique creatures and creations. Instead, we will be likely to seek to discover, form-ulate and worship: ideal forms, descriptions, laws, prescriptions, proscriptions, values, principles and guidelines --- which we regard as utterly transcendent of all particular unique creatures and creations. Then we are unlikely to respect unique individual people and other creatures which have different/unique natures, desires, fears, dispositions, and potentialities. The drive is likely to be towards conformity --- rather than towards creativity; towards control --- rather than towards liberation; towards "respectability" --- rather than towards personal and communal integrity. Fanatical dedication to the promotion of what we regard as being eternal, transcendent, and ideal forms -- -leads tragically to: imbalance, intolerance, coercive conformity, arrogance, self-righteousness, violence, alienation, estrangement, ex- communications and a multitude of evil personal relationships with disintegrative fruits --- unto the sixth and seventh generation. It is not enough to be dedicated, faithful, loyal, sacrificial and energetic. Supporters of disintegrative dictators have demonstrated how inadequate such "virtues" are in the absence of other essential virtues. Individual/isolated virtues are not worthy of ultimate concern and sacrifice --- in the absence of an integrative balanced spectrum of other essential virtues. For personal and communal integrity to prevail there must be integrity in regards to a coherent/balanced set of essential virtues---none of which is dominant over others. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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