How Important Are Intentions?

In analyzing my personal development, the two theories that best resonate with me are the cognitive theory of Baxter Magolda’s Model and the moral theory of Rest’s Approach. I plan to first begin explaining Baxter’s cognitive model and relate it to my personal development through personal examples. I will transition to talk about Rest’s moral development approach and how the approach applies to my personal development.

Since the beginning of time, the environment in which one is accustomed to provides them with the choices that lead down paths that make their legacy. This environment can be negative or positive, structured or chaotic, rich or poor, all which give a variety of choices. Regardless of the different trials and tribulations we face ultimately, it is the choices we make in response that make us the person we become.

Each action we take as humans determines our personal character and ethical theories guide us and teach us right from wrong (Mosser, 2013).

Throughout this course, we have explored both ancient and contemporary worldviews that have helped us answer the question: “What is the Self”? Apuleius had a very different approach to formulate an answer to this question then did other contemporary authors which will both be discussed in length.

life: seeing the world in relationship to oneself alone, versus viewing the world as an aggregate.

Soul theory argues that what makes a person who they are is not their physical presence, however, it is a person’s soul that differentiates them from an other living being (Perry, pp 3). The soul is one’s consciousness, their mind, allowing them to be present, experience and make decisions (Weisberg, January 2016). One’s personal identity is directly linked to one’s soul, if one has the same soul they are the same person (Perry, pp 4).

Everything begins with oneself, one must create an identity that helps to benefit their surrounding and themselves as making the right decisions can affect the outcome of the universe. “All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change” (Butler 79, Sower).

64) This defines that a human soul is more valuable than a human’s demerits. One should look at person from there righteousness, not their fault as this mentality separates the human race’s adhesiveness. 8. “I care for myself.

One word that is powerful known to man is the word “choice.” In our lifetime, we are bombarded with choices so that we have to make in order to help shape our lives. We don’t know if our rights will outweigh our wrongs but we have to try. Commonly we are held to culture value. What I mean by that is, we typically set standards on several scales of right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable to important or unimportant within society. However, along with these set standards, we’re still held accountable for what we do. Our personal responsibility of willingness to accept these standards will help separate us from our peers by inheriting integrity, showing deed, in order to ease any burdens we may encounter. Abiding by these principles, can help shape us into becoming a better person than were perceived to be.

At the same time, we have a need for positive self-regard - to develop a sense of trust in the accuracy and reliability of our own inner experienced, it is on this we must depend if we are to become independent from and able to make good decisions about life and how we are to be in it.

Studying the Constructive Development Theory (CDT) also provided a foundation to identify where I fit on the spectrum of adult development. Constructive developmental theory is an eye opening explanation of how people make meaning at different stages of consciousness. This theory identifies numerous areas of human development that an individual may be “subject to” or “hold object.” Each phase of development designates twelve specific factors that humans will use to make meaning from. Analyzing how a person’s meaning making or pinpointing the factors they are “subject to” or “hold object,” helps us to define an individual’s Order of Mind. Jennifer Garvey Berger (1999) explains in her guide, Key Concepts for Understanding the Work of Robert Kegan, that “things that are Subject are by definition experienced as unquestioned, simply part of self” (p. 2). For me, this concept revealed that I was subject to my behavior and attitude regarding my personal time management. I considered my lack of

• encourage you to develop self awareness of your own personal values through critical reflection.

In his essay “The Concept of a Person,” Charles Taylor poses the argument that our ability to assess and reassess significances and use them to shape ourselves is what

The true definition of intention is not very clear, as there are different definitions by different courts. The term ‘intention’ in criminal law has been defined as direct intention whereby a consequence is intended and desired by the defendant, and indirect (oblique) intentionwhereby the defendant can foresee a virtual certainty.Many seriouscrimes require the proof of intention or recklessness on the part of defendant, and in criminal proceedings, the court or jury must decide whether the accused has the intention or the ability to foresee the result of his actions by reference to all circumstances of the case. Thus, ‘intention’ can be classified as particular, general and

The relation between the self and the otherness is necessary to define human awareness and more importantly desire. This desire is part of the primordial human