I am so sorry I was not able to make it today...I am down with Gastro-Intestinal Flu...bummer!...not to mention, it hurts like crap! I sure hope everything went well in class and you guys were able to complete the tasks I assigned. I actually just woke up from my "slumber" to grab something to eat and take my medications...so I thought of doing this before going back to bed...!
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"Categorize the following characteristics/virtues from 1-10 based on its importance to your life at the moment. Number 1 being your first priority and 10 your least. Then simply explain why you arranged it in such a way and what method did you use in deciding your choices, what factors affected your decision, etc.? Make sure to analyze your response well and do not do this for convenience sake...if you know what I mean...!"
HONESTY/INTEGRITY/COURTESY/RESPECT/RESPONSIBILITY/
LOYALTY/FAIRNESS/CARING/ALTRUISM/HUMILITY
Mr. A TIME TO SLEEP NOW...GOOD NIGHT!
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1. Responsibility 2. Altruism 3. Humility 4. Respect 5. courtesy 6. Integrity 7. Loyalty 8. caring 9. Honesty 10. fairness
Having to categorize these ten characteristics/virtues took me a long time to think. I made this list half based on how I wanted myself to turn out like and half from what’s really important to me. I thought through what meant a lot to the society more at first, but I add in between what matters to me and then through my experience I made up the list. This is the arrangement I came up with. I put responsibility first because if we don't have responsibility, the following characteristic won't be able to achieve. If you don’t have the responsibility, you won’t have integrity since you don’t have the responsibility to do what ever there is to reach that goal. When you’re lack of responsibility, you won’t win the respect from others. If you don’t have responsibility, how can you be fair to judge others? How can you be loyal to someone when they asked you to do something and you didn’t? Altruism came second because at this moment, people I know are very important to me. I care for them but not in a way that I wish them to pay back. To me, seeing their smile on their face is the best payment they can give me. I want to be a better person; humility is what I need to become one. Respect is what I wanted to get from others, and at the same time, truly give to people that is worth respecting. In this society and the family I grew up in, courtesy means a lot. You have to have manners to survive in this world, to get rid of the rumors and to stand firm on the society. Integrity is something felt really confused; I don’t really have a goal that I could die for, but at this moment, having to choose and fight for my university school might represent integrity. Fairness is the last on the list because to me, this world is unfair. Life is unfair; this is what I’ve learned.
For me, the first priority is honesty, and then, integrity, responsibility, loyal, respect, humility, courtesy, caring, fairness and lastly altruism. The reason I placed honesty the first is because I think being honest stands for everything already. If we’re not honest enough, we can’t be respected, and I realized everything relates to honesty. Bing honest can show how much responsibility we valued in ourselves. There weren’t any method for me. I just think about each category, and then sort out by thinking which one contains the other things, and then it comes in order. But it was hard for me to sort out the categories because I think everything in priority, and we need those categories in life as well.
Honesty, responsibility, caring, loyalty, fairness, integrity, respect, altruism, humility, courtesy
Well, first to me, honesty is the most important thing. Because, if one is lack of honesty, then he or she would not be trust worthy. Then, responsibility. Because, we got to learn how to pay responsibility on our self first, rather then doing other things. Caring, it is important because, sometimes, we need each other to get to a higher level. And caring, count as a big part in this. Loyalty, is to be honest, being trust worthy, and willing to sacrifice. Fairness, kind of like integrity, are both about not being fair, or not to be partial to one or another person. Respect, would only be important if that person really cares he’s or her own reputation. Altruism, although it’s not a good thing, but sometimes, that is what we need to do in order to success. Humility, although, this is one of the top ten things that we should do, to live a “success” life, but, I just don’t think that is very important. Courtesy, in my opinion, is a kind of “bootlicking” thing to do, maybe, sometimes we got to do this kind of thing, but I still don’t think that is a good way to get out of trouble, or to get what you want.
Integrity
Honesty
Altruism
Responsibility
Loyalty
Humility
Caring
Courtesy
Respect
Fairness
I arrange them this way because I think that the first is the most important characteristic that I want to develop. I want to be a person who stand for his principles and not easily persuade by other people. The rest of characteristics will also enhance myself to become must better person. In deciding my choices, I consider what characteristics will be most important for me to prepare for my future. I know for a fact that my future will be a lot harder and challenging. Thus, I want the values that will help me live along with that kind life. There are many factors that affect my decisions. For example, my family is against me of choosing the course that not many people choose. They say that even if the society needs it, but I won’t be able to gain much money. For me, I don’t want to care about money much. It’s not that money isn’t important, but I feel guilty when I use money to buy luxury objects while some other people aren’t able to afford. This is why I want to hold on to my principles as strongly as I can. I also think that being honest is important. I must be honest to be able to be in a good term with other people. Altruism is also something I want to be. If I am altruistic, then I won’t feel down easily. As for fairness, I don’t think it is something I am able to control much. Life is not fair, so to seek fairness is something not easy.
1. Honesty
2. Loyalty
3. Respect
4. Courtesy
5. Altruism
6. Humanity
7. Caring
8. Integrity
9. Responsibly
10. Fairness
It is a hard to order these virtues, since they are all important element. But I used elimination method to make my decisions, which I based them on my previous experiences in life and the relationship with people. Honesty rank number one because the relationship between people is based on trusting each other. I dislike the feeling of being betray, therefore, people should be honest to each other, even though a kind lie is needed. Rank 2, loyalty, because in order to have a stable and long term relationship loyalty is important element. Then, respect and courtesy are similar; I think they are important kind of behavior toward others. Next, altruism, humanity, and caring people (similar), these characteristic appears when there is a stable relationship between people, when I/you know more about someone, it is important to show these characteristic. Responsibility and fairness come latest; simply they are the last choices, but still important.
1) Humility
2) Fairness
3) Honesty
4) Loyalty
5) Responsibility
6) Courtesy
7) Caring
8) Altruism
9) Respect
10) Integrity
I put humility as my first priority because I believe that in order to consist the rest of the characteristics, one must not have false pride and should be humble to one another. For example, if one had their head up in the air, i do not believe that they will be fair to one another or be caring as a matter of fact. My second priority would be fairness. I strictly believe in fairness, to me, everyone is a human being, thus, everyone should be treated with equality and not have personal priorities, although i know that it is mostly impossible in reality. Next, honesty, I find it important to tell the truth, no matter good or bad, since we live in reality, if there was no truth, there'll be no reality. Loyalty, I also find loyalty to be important, for with true loyalty there is true friendship. If a person were to live in a world without loyalty, they will be all alone in this world, and with no one to turn to, a person may just crumble like paper. Responsibility comes next in line, in this world, I believe that everyone is responsible for one thing, and if no one is responsible for anything, everyone will be pushing the blame on one another, which clearly depicts the idea of loyalty and honesty, not to mention fairness. Courtesy, I believe, is something we need in order to make others like us, or treat us with honesty and loyalty, if you have bad courtesy, one may see you as a person with a bad personality and doesnt want to treat you well in either way. Caring and Altruism i believe comes hand in hand, if your care about someone but is not altruistic, what's the point, your expressing a fake kindness/caring movement. Next comes respect, I
didn't take respect to be that important, respect makes people feel pride, and makes one person feel privelaged above another. Thus, i believe with all the above traits already, respect does not seem to matter as much to me. Finally, integrity, I would not say i do not have integrity, but to me integrity is a personal matter, if other people have their point of view, we should listen and think about it before stepping one's feet down and say "I'll fight for what i want no matter what other people say". Thus, I don't take integrity to be that important unless all the evidence point towards the fact that what i'm fighting for is the right thing.
This is how I ranked them:
Honesty-Loyalty-Humility-Responsibility-Courtesy-Integrity-Caring-Respect-Altruism-Fairness
What made doing this hard was not because their meanings are close to each other or anything, but I think what made it hard is because I haven’t ‘fully’ possess all of the ten virtues, making me an inexperienced individual in this aspect. The first and most important one is honesty. Not just being honest to the others, but also honest to yourself. Once you’re not being honest to the others, it makes the value of honesty towards yourself decrease too. When you’re not honest, other characteristics in you tend to become unstable, and people won’t trust in you anymore. I put loyalty second because I think loyalty and honesty go together. Honesty is a part of being loyal. I think loyalty is a very hard thing to find in people these days. People are often two faced and backstabbing. Humility, if I’m not wrong, means not being proud or arrogant, is very important too. I think this judges how people really are. I think if you have humility, you won’t often disappoint yourself and once you fail, people won’t think it’s a big deal because you don’t boast when you succeed! Responsibility toys around with your everyday life. It’s very simple: If you have responsibility, you succeed. If you don’t, then you’re a screw up. It also decides your reputation because responsibility is one of the easiest things to see in a person. Courtesy is also very important if you want to be liked by people. It makes other people feel good, and in return to feel good too. Integrity is important too, but it’s very hard to achieve. To me, right now I don’t even know if I’ll ever become integrite. Caring for other people and giving other people respect is a part where some people lack of. I ranked them somehow near the bottom of my list because I think I already have that characteristic. I’m not trying to boast or anything, but I think it’s the two that I don’t really have to put that much effort into. Altruism is ranked at the ninth because it’s almost impossible for people to be like that in the society today. If you have it then good, but if you don’t, you’re not the only one! Fairness is the last one because I don’t think people need to live with fairness. We are all ‘already used to’ unfairness! So what’s the use of being fair?
1-Honesty
2-Integrity
3-Respect
4-Loyalty
5-Humility
6-Responsibility
7-Courtesy
8-Caring
9-Fairness
10-Altruism
I started out numbering these categories by looking at what's the most easiest for me to accomplish. Honesty, it is what I am supposed to live up with; everyone can be honest, if they try to be. This is why integrity comes next; I have to be morally upright and honest. Respect, I know in my charactersitcs that I pay respects to others, and so, this is easy for me to do so. Loyalty, I must be loyal to myself before I ask others to be loyal to me, and this is not a hard task. As long as I follow my own thoughts and respect myself. Humility, this may be a bit harder for me to reach, simply because pride lies in each and every one of us, it's hard to eliminate it. However, it is important to be humble because this shows one's flexibility. If I'm humble enough, then I can take responsibilities, then I can be responsible. Courtesy comes after because once I am prepared with myself, I can start be courteous to others. Then the next step can be caring for others, since caring others without courtesy doesn't really make sense. Then it comes to fairness, this is something difficult for one to reach; it is hard for one to always be fair and not biased. Nothing is fair on this world. Althought fairness may be important, I think it is more important to accomplish and reach what I can first, then move on, since they are actually all important anyways. The last one is altruism because just like fairness, it is not that easy to accomplish, to be selfless and benefit for others. It is important, but if one gives everything to others then what's the purpose of one living? Living to give up everything for others when one cannot even fulfill self's basic needs? Thus, I put it as the last one because it certainly is important but it's too hard to accomplish. The first six categories I numbered are heavily influenced by what my parents taught me. I do believe in them, I think what they said are reasonable.
Honesty/Respect/Responsibility/Humility/Loyalty/Courtesy/Integrity/Caring/Fairness/Altruism
To me, honesty is the most important in my life, since I’m a student and should never cheat and stuff. If a student is not honest and tends to cheat in tests or take shortcuts, s/he will cheat on bigger things later in life. I put respect as the 2nd most important characteristic in my life at the moment. Because I’m still a kid and should respect people that are older, more experienced, and wiser than me. Responsibility is also important because I need learn to be more about responsibility because there would be more things I need to be more responsible later on in life. I think humility is some what similar to respect, because we can respect others by putting ourselves down. Loyalty is an important factor, since we are still young and we need people to guide and feed us. People guide us and we give them loyalty in return. Courtesy is important when we face people we dun really meet, but we know them. If we are rude and stuff, it will leave a bad impression, courtesy is like our mask, we use it to cover us when we meet people, and leave a good impression. Integrity is not so important because we should be flexible now, absorb all the good things, and then strengthen our thought with what we’ve learned. I don’t thing caring is so important to me I still don’t need to care about many things currently. Fairness is not so important since no matter how fair we are, it still doesn’t make any difference. Lastly, altruism is my last because we should try not to take lots of benefits from others since we already taken too many from them.
That DELTONE thing wants me to post his comment for him again...
maybe i should charge him next time
Deltone said...
Come to think of it, I think these are all important and valuable virtues. I was thinking of saying they are equally important to me. However, I know Mr. A will just say “you cannot do that, you must choose one”. From that, I thought and thought again until I think that “how can I choose one since one of them always comes after another?!?”. But then… it just popped in my head that these virtues might be valuable at different times of my life so I tried thinking about myself now. I started cutting some out. The first one I cut out was responsibility because I think we don’t need to have responsibility yet, we can still make mistakes like not turning in homework in Mr. A’s class and learn from it. Therefore, responsibility is #10. At this point, I think I know what I’m thinking already, I was thinking about what I needed now to do better later. I decided to draw the rest on a paper and I tried linking them. I found out there were 3 groups. First, a person with courtesy would be honest, and an honest person would be loyal. The second group only contained two things, if you have integrity, then you will definitely earn more respect from people than earning hatred. The last one, if you are caring to other people, you have altruism and you also have humility because you think about other people. Therefore, if you have the ability of thinking for others, you would most probably see line where it marks people equally. Wait a second, I just thought about what we’ve learned in class. I change my mind. Responsibility is going to be #9, fairness goes last. There is no fairness in the world, the law is 50% fair and unfair, we just made it up to make our society organized than it would be without law. Again, we come back to if someone is stated wrong by another person, he might have his own purposes. Therefore, there is no fairness. Fairness not existing to me doesn’t give me an inspiration to get it, please understand that for me it just doesn’t exist but it is bad and what’s bad to me is not important to me. Back to the 3 groups. I think these three groups have different range of effect. Courtesy, Honesty, and Loyalty being the closest range because it only applies to someone we know or know at the moment. (I’m looking it by groups already because one-by-one would never end not as in too hard or too long but as in infinite) The middle range group is the Caring, Altriusm, Humility group. They apply to people close to us as in our society. For example, if we see our favorite actor/singer/etc. in bad situations from the news, we can care for them. The widest range group is the Integrity and Respect group. For me, you don’t have integrity yet until you’ve established so influentially that almost everyone knows and respect you for your establishment. Lastly, for me…I would rather go step by step. Therefore, the order goes (most important to least important) Honesty, Loyalty, Caring, Altriusm, Humlity, Integrity, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness.
1. Integrity
2. Honesty
3. Loyalty
4. Responsibility
5. Respect
6. Fairness
7. Altruism
8. Humulity
9. Caring
Integrity comes first because i think what you believe in affects your lives the most. If you dont believe in anything, how can you establish your goal and what you want to achieve. If you are easily influenced by other people, then that means you dont think and you dont know what you are doing. I think it is very important to give up everything for anything you believe is right. If you dont even believe in yourself, then how can other people believe in you? I put this as my first priority using my personal experience. Next up, honesty as my second priority. Honesty is to express anything that is true, or what you believe is true. Again, if you believe that something is true according to integrity, you will honestly express it as true. Honesty really plays a significant role in our lives, simple because if people think you are not dependable or trustworthy, loyalty and responsiblity would mean nothing at all. Loyalty came up third in my arrangement. If i think someone is not loyalty, then sure i won't give everything to them, because i know they are not worth trusting. Yes, we are friends but then we know each other to well, and know that they will not be dependable if we need their help. In my life, i hope to find a very close friend that has the characteristic of loyalty. Moving downwards, responsiblity came up to be the fourth, no matter who we are, we need to have responsiblity in order to improve ourselves and mature ourselves. Responsiblity was located under honesty and loyalty because if someone is not loyal and honest, they sure would not have responsiblity because they dont consider what is true, leading to not worth trusting. People need to show respect to other people and yourself, in order for other people to respect you. If you have at least one person in the world respecting you, you will sure have a alot more confidence in your life. Tobe fair was put behind the first five because i think in life, nothing is fair. It is hard to be fair since there are no limit and rules. It all depends on what you think. If you are not fair, then of course you are not dependable worth trusting because people know you are not doing the right judgement. Altuism is what we really need to think about. Being unsellfish means to concern about others first before concerning yourself, therefore i think if you are unsellfish and concern for the others, you will have the characteristics mentioned above. Humility and caring was the last two according to my order, this is because comparing to the eight of them on top, they seem so small. To have humility is good, meaning you dont have too much pride for something you did. Caring comes last because i think each one of us should have personal responsibility. We have to take care of ourselves instead of letting others caring us. One factor that affects this decision is that my parents always left me alone at home or telling me to go out alone in order to take classes. Therefore i know how important it is to take good care of ourselves, that is how you learn and mature.
1.Responsibility
2.caring
3.Altruism
4.Humility
5.Respect
6.Honesty
7.Loyalty
8.fairness
9.courtesy
10.Integrity
This is what i see myself. The reason I put responsibility first is because responsibility mean a lot to me and to my life. If you have good responsibility toward your job or tasks, it will your characteristics/virtues look good. Second, I choose caring because I care a lot about other people and sometime they respect me in return. Next is Altruism, being not selfish is showing all your friends that your not that cheap and you willing to help your friends when they needed you the most. Next, humility, eveyybody must have humanity is just how much you are take it seriously. Respect is not that important to me because in our society, people are now faking respect other people because they are after somthing that they wanted. After they got it, they don't respect you anymore. For honesty, not everyone is 100% honesty to each other because they have something to hide. For loyalty is kind of same like what I say about "honesty" and "respect". Next one is fairness, I believe that fairness is not that important because just like my teacher say "Life is not fair". For example, 2 people are applying for a job, one person is a smart person with good degree, another person did not graduate from good university, but he know the owner of that company very well. And at last the owner pick person number 2 just because he know him well. Almost the last one, courtesy, not everyone including me is that very courtesy to everyone. Of course we might be courtesy in front of our parent or your boss. Lastly, integrity, that reason I choose integrity the last one is because eventhought how much we believe that we think is right, maybe sometime is not right. You cannot use your knowledge and think that everything that you say or believe is always right.
Not everything is perfect and be the way you wanted to be.
I. Respect
II. Honesty
III. Integrity
IV. Responsibility
V. Humility
VI. Loyalty
VII. Altruism
VIII. Caring
IX. Fairness
X. Courtesy
I put Respect and Honesty first because if a person doesn’t learn how to respect his/herself, his/her life, and his/her behavior. Then, person will not grow up in morality way, and he/she will never learn how to respect the others. Because the more respect about yourself, the more you respect on others.
To be honest enough to what you’re thinking is as important. For example, if other people prove that your idea is wrong, you need to be honest enough to your mind to accept that you’re wrong. Honest to what you desire without any concern and pressure from the society and culture is as important, or so called “honestly expressing yourself”, which mean to live the way you truly want but not the way that society and culture want to see. (Such as being wealth and famous) If one truly knows how to be honest to him/herself, one will know how to be honest to the others.
After Noticing the Respect and Honest, Integrity and responsibility will be followed. For Humility, after you achieve something great, you can be proud of your own achievement, but not arrogant of your own achievement.
I put Courtesy at the last, because I think as long as people know how to respect each other, courtesy would be something unnecessary already because it is just the result that produce from respecting each other.
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