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     %CONCEPTUAL CONTEXTS FOR INTEGRATIVE ATTITUDES 871102

     Our attitudes depend greatly upon the contexts within
which we live. There are many different kinds of contexts:
geographic,   political,   social,    educational,   work,
conceptual, language, etc.  In each context there are only
some  attitudes  which  can  survive  with  any  kind   of
integrity;    other  attitudes  undermine  the  power   to
survive, and those persons with such attitudes tend not to
survive to promulgate their attitudes.

     We can  not  control attitudes directly,  but  we can
create  contexts  which  favor one kind of  attitude,   or
favor  another   kind   of  attitude.     We can  help  to
develop  a conceptual context which will favor integrative
attitudes rather than disintegrative attitudes;    and  we
can thereby help  to  promote both personal  and  communal
integrity.   Only  in  the context of concepts which  make
integration  appear  possible, is it  reasonable  to  have
attitudes of hope for  a better future.    If our concepts
point  towards only disintegration,  we cannot  reasonably
have an attitude of hope and positive expectation.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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