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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8607111.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.} ========================================================== %SOCIALLY AFFIRMED PERSONAL REFLECTION 860711 There is a significant difference between social affirmation of a person's overt behavior and social affirmation of a person's reflections. A person's overt behavior is relatively obvious. A person's reflections may well be quite private, especially in a conformal society. A person may well be quite private, especially in a conformal society. A person may well experience a need for social affirmation of both overt behavior and personal reflections upon self. Because of the difference between the two, the two kinds of social affirmation are not equally readily available. Social affirmations of personal reflections are scarce in a conformal society which requires overt conformity as a price for social affirmation. Personal reflections are bound to include reflections upon the coercion of the conformal society. Only fools would expect to enjoy social affirmations of such personal reflections. The availability of social affirmations of personal reflections become even less in a society dedicated to objectivity as an ultimate arbiter of reliability. Personal reflections by their very nature are not objective, regardless of their content. In an exclusively objective society people can not ever expect affirmation by the society of their personal reflections; such reflections being non-objective are unreliable, not worthy of discussion, and perhaps are taboo. Only fools would seek social affirmations of their personal reflections in a society compulsively dedicated to objectivity. These considerations do not indicate that people do not need social affirmation of their behaviors and reflections. To be fully human is to be a person of personal integrity functioning with social integrity and honesty in a community characterized by communal integrity. There is a fundamental human need to fully human, and that which stands in the way of being fully human should be open to profound criticism in the most constructive ways possible. The community that seeks to promote it unity with integrity will seek to meet the needs of its members for affirmation of integrative behavior and integrative personal reflections upon all efforts to promote both personal and communal integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================