Honesty is the ability of an individual to express his true position (thoughts), to speak the truth under any circumstances. A person with honesty knows how to admit his guilt, is able to avoid lies and omissions in judgment when communicating with others. Honesty is a sign of a conscientious person who is able to control actions and words, be sincere, and not cross the line. A person with the quality of honesty avoids deception in any situation, without selfish motives to misinform the interlocutor. In contrast to a truthful person, an honest individual is capable of telling lies, but it is believed that at the same time he retains his property of being honest, since he himself believes in lies.
What is honesty?
Let's talk about honesty. It is worth trying to define this rather difficult concept. Honesty is a character trait when a person always tells the truth and tries not to lie under any circumstances. He avoids lies and omissions. Honesty is the ability to always admit that you are wrong, it is the ability to never make excuses, to be sincere in any situation. An honest person has a conscience that never sleeps, which strictly controls all his actions and actions.
Notes
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"Meaning of
honesty in English" .
Oxford Living Dictionaries
. Oxford University Press. Retrieved February 26, 2022. - "The meaning of integrity
in English."
Cambridge Dictionary
. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved February 26, 2019. - Integrity: Doing the right thing for the right reason
. McGill-Queen's University Press. 2010. p. 12. ISBN 9780773582804. Retrieved 2013-10-15. Integrity is a personal choice, an uncompromising and predictably consistent commitment to respect moral, ethical, spiritual and artistic values and principles. - John Louis Lookaites; Celeste Michelle Condit; Sally Caudill (1999). Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader
. Guilford Press. paragraph 92. ISBN 1-57230-401-4. - "Integrity". Ethics without packaging
. Received 2020-05-27. - Gerald Cushing McCallum (1993). Legislative Intent and Other Essays on Law, Politics and Morals
. Univ of Wisconsin Press. paragraph 152. ISBN 978-0-299-13860-8. Retrieved July 12, 2014. - Krishna Pillai (26 February 2011). The essence of a manager
. Springer Science & Business Media. paragraph 163. ISBN 978-3-642-17581-7. Retrieved July 12, 2014. - Zuckert, Katherine H.; Zuckert, Michael P. (2006). "Strauss - Modernity - America." The Truth About Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy
. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press. paragraph 73. ISBN 978-0-226-99332-4. - Aristotle (2000), Politics
, translated by B. Jowett, New York: Dover. - ^ a b c
Kaptein, Muel (2014). "Servant of the People: On the Power of Integrity in Politics and Government." Social Science Research Network. SSRN 2498730. Journal citation required | log = (Help) - Aristotle (1976). Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, James Alexander, Kerr Thomson, Hugh Tredennick, translators Jonathan Barnes
. ISBN 9780140449495. Retrieved 2012-03-11. - van Minden (2005: 206-208): […] deze 'integrateitstests' (dat klinkt prettiger dan eerlijkheids- of leugentests) […]
[Translation: … these “integrity tests” (sounds better than integrity tests or verification to lie)] - van Minden, Jack J. (2005). Alla over psychological tests
(in Dutch).
Business contact. paragraph 207. ISBN 978-90-254-0415-4. De schriftelijke integriteitstests zijn gemakkelijk af te nemen.
Ze zijn gebaseerd op enkele aannamen, die er duidelijk in zijn terug te vinden: Minder eerlijke personen: (1) rapporteren een grotere mate van oneerlijk gedrag. (2) zijn geneigd eerder oneerlijk gedrag te verontschuldigen. (3) zijn geneigd meer excuses redenen voor diefstal aan te voeren. (4) Denken Wacker over Diefstal. (5) zien vaker oneerlijk gedrag als acceptabel. (6) zijn vaker implusief (7) zijn geneigd zichzelf en anderen zwaarder te straffen. [Translation: Written honesty tests are easy to take. They are based on some assumptions that are explicitly contained in them: Less honest people: (1) They report more dishonest behavior. (2) They are more likely to make excuses for dishonest behavior. (3) They are more likely to give excuses or reasons for stealing. (4) They often think about theft. (5) They often view dishonest behavior as acceptable. (6) They are often impulsive. (7) They tend to punish themselves and others harshly.] - ^ a b
Van Minden (2005: 207) writes: “TIP: Dit type vragenlijsten melden koelbloedig dat zij kunnen ontdekken wanneer u een misleidend antwoord geeft of de zaak bedondert. U weet langzammerhand dat geen enkele test zo'n require waar kan maken, zelfs niet een die gespecialiseerd is in het-opsporen van bedriegers.” Translated: “TIP: Question lists like these coolly mention that they can detect when you are giving a cheating answer or trying to cheat on the test. You gradually realize that no test can support such a claim, even one that specializes in detecting cheaters." - Countess Mar. “Waste incinerators: health hazards (HL3533). Written Question dated 23 November 2022 and Reply by Lord O'Shaughnessy dated 12 May 2022.” House of Lords
. Retrieved January 30, 2022. - Muel Kapteyn and Johan Wempe, 2002 The Balanced Company: A Theory of Corporate Integrity (Oxford University Press).
- See Abstract Harvard Business School NOM Research Paper NO. 06-11 and Barbados Group Working Paper No. 06-03 at Erhard, Werner; Michael S. Jensen; Steve Zaffron (2007). "Integrity: a positive model that integrates the normative phenomena of morality, ethics and legality." Social Science Research Network. SSRN 920625. Integrity exists in a positive sphere devoid of normative content. Thus, honesty is not about good or bad, right or wrong, or what should or should not be. […] We argue that integrity (the state of wholeness and integrity) is a necessary condition for performance, and that the resulting level of performance determines the available capabilities for performance. Magazine citation required | log = (Help)
- Erhard, Werner; Michael S. Jensen; Steve Zaffron (2010). "Integrity: a positive model that includes normative phenomena of morality, ethics and legality" (abridged edition). Social Science Research Network. SSRN 1542759. Journal citation required | log = (Help)
- Jensen, Michael S.; Karen Christensen (interviewer) (January 14, 2009). “Integrity: Without it, nothing works.” Rothman Magazine
. pp. 16–20, Fall 2009. SSRN 1511274.
About types of honesty
There are two types of honesty - honesty with other people and honesty with yourself. At first glance, it seems that being completely honest with yourself is very easy. However, it is not. Very often people fall into a network of illusions they themselves create and can remain in them for a long time. For example, there are cases when a person considers another person to be his most sincere friend, trusts him in everything, helps him, and years later it turns out that friendship as such did not exist. It’s just that the first one wanted to believe in this holy feeling, and the other simply skillfully took advantage of its principles. Therefore, it is very important to never deceive yourself.
Now let's talk about honesty with others. What does this concept include? First of all, it is being true to your word. An honest person will always keep his promise and help in difficult times. You can trust him like yourself. He always speaks to the point and would rather remain silent than flatter and sing praises.
Other Features
Disciplines and fields that are interested in integrity include: philosophy of action, philosophy of medicine, mathematics, reason, cognition, consciousness, materials science, civil engineering, and politics. Popular psychology defines personal integrity, professional integrity, artistic integrity, and intellectual integrity.
For example, scientific research should not determine the outcome before the actual results. As an example of a violation of this principle, the UK government agency Public Health England recently stated that it was maintaining the government's policy until the results of a study they commissioned were available.[15]
The concept of integrity may also be present in business contexts beyond issues of integrity and ethical behavior of the employee/employer, especially in the context of marketing or branding. Brand "integrity" is seen by some as a desirable outcome for companies seeking to maintain a consistent and unambiguous position in the minds of their audience. This brand integrity includes consistent messaging and often includes the use of a set of graphic standards to maintain visual integrity in marketing communications. Kapteyn and Wempe developed a theory of corporate integrity, including criteria for businesses dealing with moral dilemmas.[16]
Another use of the term "integrity" is found in the work of Michael Jensen and Werner Erhard in their scientific article "Integrity: A Positive Model Unifying the Normative Phenomenon of Morality, Ethics, and Legality." In this article, the authors explore a new model of integrity as a state of wholeness, wholeness, integrity, intactness, solidity, and ideal state. They posit a new model of integrity that provides access to increased productivity for individuals, groups, organizations and societies. Their model “identifies the causal relationship between integrity and improved productivity, quality of life, and value creation for all actors and provides access to this causal relationship.”[17][18][19]According to Muel Kaptein, integrity is not a one-dimensional concept. . In his book, he presents a multifaceted perspective of integrity. Honesty refers, for example, to following rules, but also to social expectations, to morals and ethics, to actions and attitudes.[10]
Electronic signals are considered to have integrity when there is no distortion of information between one domain and another, for example, from a disk to a computer display. This honesty is a fundamental principle in providing information. Corrupted information is unreliable, but intact information has value.
Is it easy to be honest?
Unfortunately, being honest in the modern world is very difficult, since deception, meanness and betrayal can be found at every step. In most cases, they love those people who can cheat, avoid answering, or lavish compliments. That is why man has an unbearably difficult mission to bring kindness and light to this world. Honesty is not only a quality of character, but also a duty of those people who consider themselves highly moral. There are several reasons why people choose to be honest. Those who believe in God will say that the seventh commandment says: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” And they will be completely right in living according to the Lord’s instructions. Others, non-believers, can also be no less honest, since they cannot live otherwise. Thus, we can conclude that honesty is achieved in different ways.
In ethics
In ethics, when discussing behavior and morals, a person is considered to have the virtue of honesty if his actions are based on internally consistent principles.[6][7] These principles must always be observed to become axioms or postulates. A person can be described as having ethical integrity to the extent that his actions, beliefs, methods, measures and principles stem from a single core group of values. Therefore, a person must be flexible and willing to adjust these values to maintain consistency when these values are challenged—for example, when an expected test result does not match all observed results. Because such flexibility is a form of responsibility, it is seen as a moral responsibility as well as a virtue.
An individual's value system provides a framework within which a person acts in a consistent and expected manner. Integrity can be considered as the state or condition of having such a structure and coordinated action within this structure.
One of the most important aspects of a negotiated structure is that it does not allow any unreasonable (arbitrary) exceptions for a particular person or group, especially the person or group that supports the structure. By law, this principle of universal application requires that even persons holding official positions may be subject to the same laws as their fellow citizens. In personal ethics, this principle requires that a person should not act in accordance with any rule that he would not like to be universally observed. For example, one should not steal unless one wants to live in a world in which everyone was a thieve. The philosopher Immanuel Kant formally described the principle of universal application in his categorical imperative.
The concept of integrity refers to integrity, an overarching body of beliefs, often called a worldview. This concept of integrity emphasizes honesty and authenticity, requiring one to act at all times in accordance with the individual's chosen worldview.
Ethical integrity is not synonymous with goodness, as Zuckert and Zuckert about Ted Bundy show:
When caught, he defended his actions on the basis of a difference of facts and values. He ridiculed those, such as the professors from whom he learned the difference between facts and values, who still lived their lives as if there was a true value to evaluate statements. He thought that they were fools and that he was one of the few who had the courage and integrity to live a consistent life in the light of the truth that value judgments, including the command “Thou shalt not kill,” are simply subjective statements.[8]
— Zuckert and Zuckert, The Truth About Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy
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- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Werner Erhard, The New Model of Honesty
- Belyaev, Igor A. (May 2011, volume 4, number 5) “Man: integrity and integrity.” Journal of the Siberian Federal University. Humanities and Social Sciences, pp. 633–43.
- “Scientific Integrity—Principles and Rules of Procedure” (Download PDF). Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
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