This is http://www.essayz.com/b0212061.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.} ========================================================== %WHY VIRTUES PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES RELATION+021206 %INTERRELATION CAUSE EFFECT CORRELATIONS HONESTY+021206 %GENTLE SHARING LISTENING DIALOGUE PEACEMAKING LOVE+021206 %HUMILITY MERCY JUSTICE CIVILITY HOSPITALITY GIVING 021206 Why are the following essential virtues? PERSONAL & COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES are essential to each other and to the survival of healthy communities within which individuals can live healthy and meaningful lives. When communities and their individual members do not affirm and demonstrate both personal and communal integrities --- they disintegrate and cannot well represent whatever it is that they have "stood for". PERSONAL & COMMUNAL HONESTY are essential aspects of personal and communal integrities. Any behaviors or attitudes which threaten personal and communal honesty threaten personal and communal integrations and so the survival of the communities, their members, and what they stand for. PERSONAL & COMMUNAL GENTLENESS and associated traits such as: civility, hospitality, generosity, sympathy, empathy, forgiveness, tolerance and cooperation are also essential aspects of facilitating, maintaining and promoting personal & communal integrities. PERSONAL & COMMUNAL SHARING, LISTENING AND DIALOGUE are all essential aspects of facilitating, maintaining and promoting personal and communal integrities --- for in their absence the communications which are central in all forms of integrity are absent. PERSONAL & COMMUNAL efforts to promote and facilitate RECONCILIATION, HEALING, PEACEMAKING & COOPERATION are essential aspects of personal and communal integrities --- for in their absence each error, mistake, accident or flaw will likely to lead to more imperfections, threats, diseases and dis-ease which undermine both personal and communal integrities. Sympathetic PERSONAL & COMMUNAL attention to people's experiences, insights, hopes, aspirations, desires, and fears is essential to the development and maintenance of personal and communal integrities --- for in the absence of such attention --- alienation soon undermines the above essential virtues. HUMILITY, MERCY & JUSTICE are essential to the development and maintenance of personal and communal integrities --- for in the absence of any of them --- alienation soon undermines the above essential virtues. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================