Virtues are
the core of our soul and what makes our life have a purpose. Virtues help one
have individual ethical greatness. However, depending on ones specific beliefs
that alters what positive traits or virtues one has. The virtue of self-respect
cannot be left behind if one wants to be morally good.
My virtue is self-respect which is
having pride and confidence in oneself. It helps us achieve the peace of mind one
needs to succeed in their everyday life. Before anyone can love someone else
they need to love themself first. Accepting who you are will help accepting who
others are for who they are with their flaws included. Self-respects builds the
foundation for how one treats themselves and how one let’s others treat them.
From decision-making, one can notice how much self-respect one does or doesn’t
have. For example, if one allows their boy friend to cheat on them several
times someone can realize how little self-respect that person has. A person
with self-respect would realize they deserve someone better. The cheating
boyfriend realizes the low self-respect the girl friend has and takes advantage
of that. When an individual is not treating themselves well that’s when everything else
in life goes down hill too. How one carries themselves reflects on others as
well. Self-respect helps to build strong and lasting friendships that are
beneficial to one another. Everyone should believe they are good and worthy of
anything they want in life. No other virtue will help others treat you better
and affect every aspect of our lives in a positive way. Everyone needs to be
proud of who they are. Therefore, everyone should develop this virtue.
If one does not know how to
appreciate and accept themselves for who they are, how do people expect others
to? Life is too short to not love yourself. People accept bad grades, jobs, and
relationships because they think they don’t deserve anything better. Anyone and
everyone can have a good relationship or job if they go out there with a
positive mind. Relationships go down hill when self-respect is lacking.
All acts of
self-respect are virtuous
All acts of
confidence are acts of self-respect
Therefore, all
acts of confidence are virtuous
One needs
to love themselves enough to choose what makes their life better and their self
happy. Self-respect is one of the many virtues that people need to have to live a happy and fulfilling life.
1. All acts of confidence are virtuous
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3. Therefore, all acts of self respect are virtuous
I think your virtue is a very important virtue. If more people hard this it would be better for others to respect them. I actually like how you connected self respect with confidence because I feel like many people don't realize that they are both tied together. I think you described self respect in a very general way so everyone could understand. Especially with those examples.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this is an important virtue. Although you gave examples of what someone with self-respect would do and what someone without self-respect would do, you never carefully defined self-respect in your own words or wrote how this virtue wouldn't overlap with a virtue we talked about in class like courage. For example writing, self-respect is defined as knowing what one should accept for themselves and a feeling of self worth. This is different than courage which builds self-respect.
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