Midterm Document Essay: The Concept of Integrity in the Work of Parker Palmer, Wangari Maathai, and John O’Donohue
Virtually all men can endure adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Mostly, integrity is an essential component in every individual's life, especially people with authority. Integrity means following your ethical persuasions and doing the right thing in all situations, even if no one is scrutinizing you. Having integrity means you are trustworthy to yourself and would do nothing that humiliates you. However, honesty regarding leadership is most of the times vice versa; when some people get a position, their character changes. For example, political leaders - some of them immediately they undertake …show more content…
Without unquestionable integrity, no real success is possible, no matter who you are, where you are, and what you are in social life. In Parker Palmer’s work, he discusses the importance of vocation. Palmer is a speaker, world-renowned writer, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, religiosity, leadership, and social change. He invokes the spirit, words, and challenges of political leaders. In detail, Palmer argues that “the clues to decode our lives selfhood and vocation may be hard” (Palmer 15). That explains that to identify a valid integrity, it is difficult in a way, it takes a long time to decode. However, the strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the individual or home. So when you can decode individual or home integrity, then the nation can stand strong. For a nation to develop, integrity plays a significant role, which Palmer states that in the "path of authentic service in the world" (Palmer 16). When you identify your selfhood or vocation, you need the integrity to enable you to discharge your duties successfully without discrepancy. For instance, Senator B. Norton …show more content…
John Joseph O'Donohue was a priest, philosopher, poet, and scholar from Conamara, Ireland. On January 1, 1956, O'Donohue was born and raised in County Clare and died on January 4, 2008, and he was bestowed a Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from the German University of Tubingen in 1990. He was a gifted speaker, natural storyteller, and influential teacher, who had been charming audiences at intimate seminars and major international conferences. According to O'Donohue, there are an immense inequality and disparities that exist in our world; however, the duty of prerogative is absolute integrity. Knowledge without character, pleasure without conscience, wealth without work, politics without principle, religion without sacrifice, science without humanity, and business without ethics are things that can destroy personality. But, beauty is an enriched concept that life unfolds, throughout O'Donohue work, he explained that beauty is a human calling. Therefore, integrity is a mission; honesty is an inherent beauty, not external glamour. Nevertheless, when you get knowledge with character, it gives you a conceptual and appreciative behavior like the limestone form example O'Donohue describes in his work. Integrity is a soul friend, so never allow yourself ever to do anything that would degrade your wholeness. Moreover, honesty is a reputation that we have to build it as O'Donohue
Virtually all men can endure adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Mostly, integrity is an essential component in every individual's life, especially people with authority. Integrity means following your ethical persuasions and doing the right thing in all situations, even if no one is scrutinizing you. Having integrity means you are trustworthy to yourself and would do nothing that humiliates you. However, honesty regarding leadership is most of the times vice versa; when some people get a position, their character changes. For example, political leaders - some of them immediately they undertake …show more content…
Without unquestionable integrity, no real success is possible, no matter who you are, where you are, and what you are in social life. In Parker Palmer’s work, he discusses the importance of vocation. Palmer is a speaker, world-renowned writer, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, religiosity, leadership, and social change. He invokes the spirit, words, and challenges of political leaders. In detail, Palmer argues that “the clues to decode our lives selfhood and vocation may be hard” (Palmer 15). That explains that to identify a valid integrity, it is difficult in a way, it takes a long time to decode. However, the strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the individual or home. So when you can decode individual or home integrity, then the nation can stand strong. For a nation to develop, integrity plays a significant role, which Palmer states that in the "path of authentic service in the world" (Palmer 16). When you identify your selfhood or vocation, you need the integrity to enable you to discharge your duties successfully without discrepancy. For instance, Senator B. Norton …show more content…
John Joseph O'Donohue was a priest, philosopher, poet, and scholar from Conamara, Ireland. On January 1, 1956, O'Donohue was born and raised in County Clare and died on January 4, 2008, and he was bestowed a Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from the German University of Tubingen in 1990. He was a gifted speaker, natural storyteller, and influential teacher, who had been charming audiences at intimate seminars and major international conferences. According to O'Donohue, there are an immense inequality and disparities that exist in our world; however, the duty of prerogative is absolute integrity. Knowledge without character, pleasure without conscience, wealth without work, politics without principle, religion without sacrifice, science without humanity, and business without ethics are things that can destroy personality. But, beauty is an enriched concept that life unfolds, throughout O'Donohue work, he explained that beauty is a human calling. Therefore, integrity is a mission; honesty is an inherent beauty, not external glamour. Nevertheless, when you get knowledge with character, it gives you a conceptual and appreciative behavior like the limestone form example O'Donohue describes in his work. Integrity is a soul friend, so never allow yourself ever to do anything that would degrade your wholeness. Moreover, honesty is a reputation that we have to build it as O'Donohue