Honneth's Integrity

It is important for every individual to recognise their own behaviour and the way in which they communicate with others and acknowledge any improvement required.

People are looked down upon for having constant assertiveness. A man named Dan Post once said, “Egotism is the glue in which you get stuck in yourself”. In a modern world, egoists are seen as negative figures who are full of themselves. In truth, egoists are the confident leaders and achievers that the world offers. Though they are frowned upon, the egoists of yesterday, today, and tomorrow shaped the human race. Egoist entrepreneurs, scientists, and doctors held such pride in themselves and their work that they changed the world. For hundreds of years, egoism has been seen as a negative aspect to life. This idea has been summarized by the late Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, Carlyle said “Egoism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.”. Carlyle believes that egoists are shameful to society. In reality, the egotists of different generations are the ones who keep the wheels of life spinning with their curiosity and determination. Both themes of curiosity and determination apply to Prometheus and

A lot of people in the world struggle with self-identity and understanding who they are, and the people and events around them in their daily life provide a sort of fill-in for the gap that exists inside of them, whether it’s in the form of jealousy or admiration. Instead of relying on themselves and making an impact on the world based on who they are themselves, these people often undermine their own identity and sabotage their lives and those around them by focusing on, obsessing over, and essentially depending on other things that only appear to be a part of them. In the novel A Separate Peace, the author, John Knowles, brings up this subject of the risk of dependency on self-identity through the main character and protagonist, Gene, and

In A Separate Peace, John Knowles uses the universality of jealousy and envy to develop a theme based upon man’s inhumanity to man.

Josiah Royce writes about the moral understanding between our neighbors and ourselves. Royce explains how we, a community, do not see other people, our neighbors, as true as ourselves. As time goes on it appears that we come from selfish place, a place where we do not view others as unlimited, influential, or genuine as we view ourselves. Royce rationalizes how shame and compassion are not enough to achieve moral insight.

Throughout life, people will objectify other people; they will de-humanize them, minimize their life, and judge them. As humans, it’s innate to us and also been drilled into our brain through social norms to judge based on first sight and first impressions. We may trash-talk someone even though we are majorly lacking on knowledge of them, just because of the way they seem, or because of the way we are. Every crucial conversation you’ve had, every fear you’ve had, every emotion you’ve felt can be traced back to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

The most of us expect appreciation from others; whereas, they ignore to appreciate others. Indeed, it is the blunt

Humans learn at a very young age how burdensome it is to please others. When we focus our attention too much on the approval of others, we might lose sight of what is truly important, ourselves. How we feel towards ourselves and the decisions we decide to make have a greater impact on ourselves than what others believe. An example of this is located in the fairy tale The Ugly Duckling. The protagonist is so dedicated to reaching the approval of others that when he doesn't receive it, he feels lesser than everyone.

And the dangers of this message is that it taps into our own vanities, for "Human beings only have to be told things to half-believe them, and our vanities are evidently always on a hair trigger" . He uses this example to set the stage for the rest of the essay as he explores the ethics of loving yourself and/or not loving yourself. Generally, the reader is asked whether “narcissism and vanity [are] really as bad as they seem?” As a philosopher Blackburn answers ‘no’, but as an observer of what he calls the “contemporary self-esteem industry” , he answers ‘yes’.

Something that clearly defines me as a person and that I believe in (and try to do) is, treating others, the way I would want to be treated. There are some values and limitations that I have that are connected to “The Golden Rule”. In this essay I will discuss a few of these values and limitations. What do I value?

It has been examined that human behaviors change when different technical factors are involved, such as Foot-In-The-Door, Door-In-The-Face, and Reciprocity. These techniques link by the understanding of how one person can be spoken into compliance that directs getting something they want. All three of these connect because it is usually that as one person asks for something, almost always they ask for something in return. In a sense, Reciprocity fits in as one of the techniques that are most commonly used because it could be to respond to a positive action with another positive action. Shown in the 2nd article, written by David A. Gutman, “Reciprocity…is the basis for interpersonal bonds that define a society and an integral part of traditional

In fact, this theory proposes that, “to live is to feel inferior” (Mosak 1995). However, when the individual begins to act inferior rather than feel inferior, the individual is engaging in “discouragement” or the inferiority complex (Mosak 1995). “To oversimplify, the inferiority feeling is universal and ‘normal’; the inferiority complex reflects the discouragement of a limited segment of our society and is usually ‘abnormal’” (Mosak 1995). This theory views the healthy and “ideal” individual as one who engages in life experiences with confidence and optimism. “There is a sense of belonging and contributing, the ‘courage to be imperfect,’ and the serene knowledge that one can be acceptable to others, although imperfect” (Mosak 1995).

He accepts the fact that he is not an individual but rather an atom-like being compliant with the universal rules of rational society. The reflections or “replicas” (144) repeat his gestures, thus, depriving him of originality, denying his claims to autonomy and effacing the distinction between him, the “real people who are slaves of common thoughts, that are not even their own” (116) and an illusory “crowd of gentlemanly and slavish imitators” (116). The act of looking into the mirror embodies the reifying gaze which questions Hervey’s status of an autonomous observer and turns him into an object of perception controlled by the staring crowd. It is the gaze of others that serves as a tool of disciplining an individual into obedience with a hegemonic discourse taking the form of “common thoughts”

There have several stories that show what people thought of the inequality in the article ”What Happen To Please And Thank You!” Some stories in this article show why people are impolite to others; when someone does not have civility or do nothing to others When Jane was nine months pregnant, she was having trouble getting out of her car. A coworker was stared at her, but he did not offer help to Jane because he thought that Jane was a strong and independent woman. Even though Jane is a strong and independent woman, but it does not mean that she does not need help from others. As a polite person, one should have offer help to others when one sees that someone needed his help. But Jane’s coworker did not do so, which shows that he is an impolite person, and it also shows that there is an inequality of mannerism between men and women. Therefore, the reason of the social fabric breaking down was the inequality, the reason why the inequality between female and male is that their parents have not ever taught their children, that they have to be kind and help someone who needs their

While there is no need to see ‘common humanity’ in an overall positive light – people can be compassionate towards their friends and not embrace the rather abstract term of ‘humanity’ – it is nevertheless necessary to know how forgiving a person in general is. The third item is the diametrically opposite: self-kindness. While humanity is abstract and outwards directed, self-kindness is concrete and inward (Reyes, 2012; Raab, 2014). One would expect a negative correlation between the stance towards humanity and how one sees oneself. For that reason, sub-scores for self-kindness are counted in reverse order in contrast to the other three areas. The fourth area, however, is the real significant area, because it evaluates mindfulness, a Buddhist concept to the very core (Huynh et al., 2007; Dahl et al., 2015). ‘Mindfulness’ lets us measure self-compassion with some accuracy because of this parameter measures if one is ready to accept reality as it is. Only if we aren’t defensive against the things that happen in our life, only if we accept what are there can we be compassionate towards ourselves, without judgment, without any attachment to an ego and emotional distress towards items we do not have the power to change (Hanh, 2016)?