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 %COMMUNAL INTEGRITY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS ASPECTS 961201

     /We   may attribute integrity to  individual  persons
and communities.      We   may  also  attribute  integrity
to   relationships    between   individual   persons   and
communities.  Such attributions are not necessarily all of
the very same kind.   In what  ways  may such attributions
differ,   depending  upon  that  which  is  said  to  have
integrity?    In what  ways are  such  attributions alike,
regardless of that  which   is  said  to  have  integrity?
Let  us   consider   the  second questions first and  then
return to the first question.

     That which is said to have integrity:

     1.  Is whole, coherent, not fragmented.

     2.  Is not torn apart by continuing internal
   conflicts and violence.

     3.  Entails honesty, can be trusted.

     Differences  arise  because  of  differences  in  the
nature  of  those  realities  which may be  said  to  have
integrity;  especially whether that which is said to  have
integrity is an INDIVIDUAL or a COMMUNITY.

     INDIVIDUALS   who   are  persons  of  integrity   are
concerned  about the integrity of communities;   including
communities of which they are not members.

     COMMUNITIES  that have integrity are concerned  about
the  integrity of individuals;  including individuals  who
are members of other communities.

     By virtue of size COMMUNITIES usually have more power
to   dominant  most INDIVIDUALS,  than  most   INDIVIDUALS
have  power  to  dominate  COMMUNITIES.    This  asymmetry
is   a  difference   which  affects  the  sense  in  which
INDIVIDUALS and COMMUNITIES can be said to have integrity.

     In  a  similar way there are differences between  how
INDIVIDUALS  AS INDIVIDUALS can be said to have  integrity
in   contrast   to  how  PERSONAL  RELATIONSHIPS   between
individuals   can  be  said  to  have  integrity.     This
situation  is  in some ways intermediate between  that  of
INDIVIDUALS and COMMUNITIES.

     INDIVIDUALS   who   are  persons  of  integrity   are
concerned about the integrity of personal relationships as
relationships  which transcend individuality;    including
the  integrity of relationships between individual persons
other than themselves.

     RELATIONSHIPS  between individual persons are said to
have integrity  when they function as healthy wombs within
which persons grow  in personal integrity by virtue of the
exchange of gifts of security enjoyed as the freedom to be
safely vulnerable within a relationship of open and honest
intimacy.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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