...the senses. According to Descartes Rene, humans should be skeptics. This saves them from “error and rash judgment” (78). Humans need to doubt their former opinions and faculties if they are only believed because of the perception of their senses. Descartes believes that because our senses have deceived us before, there is room to doubt our senses. Therefore, if these opinions or beliefs are held within the senses, they cannot be claims of truth, since there is room for doubt. The only way to trust the senses, is to be assured by a “chain of reason” (78) to the first principle. Hume believes that this is not possible, and if it were, it would not give them reason to assure anything else as absolute truth. Hume says that we should be skeptics but not in the Cartesian way. He does not agree in rejecting everything believed through the senses. Hume believes that careful...
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...Trust in the Workplace Trust starts with confidence in and reliance on good qualities, especially fairness, truth, honor, or ability. Trust in the workplace is essential. Untruthfulness can cause employees to lose moral, productivity and lead to feelings of low esteem. To be part of a team in an organization one must have respect for his/her team mates and subordinates in order to gain the mutual respect that which is expected. In the workplace, there are trust issues for the entire senior management team. One reason for distrust is that the management team use an autocratic method of managing, giving the other team members no room to be creative. It is as if the management team has personal issues with internal security within oneself and their work position in the organization. There are members of the management team who are very organized and proclaim to be team players, but it disheartens one to walk up on conversations about employees that should not be taking place in the hall. Those conversations should be behind closed doors with other members of the management team. According to Dave Bowman, a Human Resources Expert, “Many experts agree that trust is perhaps the most important element of a harmonious, synergistic and efficient work environment. Organizations that have trust among employees are usually successful; those that don't frequently are not.” Bowman gives five ways to create and build trust in their teams: * Establish and maintain integrity. It...
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...6 PUBLIC MANAGEMENT | OCTOBER 2011 ¡cma.org/pm By John Hamm D oyee perförtjjance o your employees trust you? The brutal truth is: probably not. It may not be fair, and you may not want to hear it, but chances are that previous leaders or managers have poisoned the ground on which you're trying to build a successful organization. Make no mistake: unless you and all the leaders in your organization can gain the trust of employees, performance will suffer. And considering how tough it is to survive in today's economic environment, that's bad news for an organization. Why is trust so pivotal? Because it's a matter of human nature. When employees don't trust their leaders, they don't feel safe. And when they don't feel safe, they don't take risks. And where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less "going the extra mile," and, therefore, very little unexpected upside. Feeling safe is a primal human need. When that need isn't met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Our attention on whatever scares us increases until we either fight or run in the other direction, or until the threat diminishes on its own. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. And that response is hidden inside organizational behaviors—sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of...
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...Your Heart Issues Finder Result You may want to print the 12 pages of Results by using your browser's print capability Or by clicking the "print" button. ------------------------------------------------- Początek formularza | | Dół formularza ------------------------------------------------- Początek formularza | | Dół formularza Your Overall Score is 175 out of a possible 300Your Scaled Score is -1 on a scale of -10 to +10 Your Overall Score is 175 out of a possible 300Your Scaled Score is -1 on a scale of -10 to +10Life is a struggle! Sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down. You experience love, joy, and peace but also struggle with anxiety, sadness, and irritation. You will recognize certain categories of this test as being wonderful strengths, while others are a life long battle. By healing the issues of your heart you can reach the place you have been longing for, where your strengths get better and your weak areas become stable. You can be freed from the daily grind.In the area of Unforgiveness, you scored 5Your Scaled Score is -10 on a scale of -10 to +10You tend to feel that others have hurt you and you carry grudges and lingering bitterness towards them. You may not want to or feel that you can forgive them. You also may not feel that you can forgive yourself. Forgiveness is the foundation for an abundant life of love, joy and peace. You can release the negative emotions that come with unforgiveness and live in peace and joy.In the...
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...When, If Ever is a Lie Morally Permissible? Peggy Scott Phil 6 Symbolic Logic Summer Session B August 21, 2001 Chapters directed to: 1,2 and 3; Pg. 39-42 Conflicts of Duty, 4,7,11 Conclusion, Augustine, Aquinas & Kant Lying to protect the anonymity of Alcoholics Anonymous members and their families helps them join the group, recover and chart a new course for their lives. The few occasional lies necessary to keep their affiliation with the group private are morally acceptable, because society is safer if these people are in AA than if they are not in AA. Alcoholics have very little chance of staying sober without AA, and they often do terrible things to anyone in their path when they are drunk. Anonymity encourages participation in AA for both new and continuing members, and fewer would join and stay sober if they had to bear the burden of public knowledge of their condition. As a matter of public policy, our communities are generally strong supporters of AA, providing meeting rooms, considerable goodwill and privacy for over fifty years now. AA and the public both benefit by every alcoholic who quits drinking, because a sober drunk is a safer drunk. When we look to the individual level, what's in the best interest of the public and what’s best for the sober alcoholic are often diametrically opposed. The legal, social and economic repercussions for having identified oneself as an alcoholic could be devastating to a sober alcoholic person if this information...
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...delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. (1Cor 13:4-8) Introduction: Most people define love as a type of feeling. We "fall in love," or two people meet and it is "love at first sight." The world's definition of the word love is all about self. If two people are attracted to each other they must be nice to one another to get attention, and for the affection to be returned. The world's love is based on receiving from one another not giving. The world does not just give love to others when it is not beneficial to them. People tend to feel that if you are not pleasing me then I have no love to give to you. For people that are not Christians love is something that has to be earned by making someone else feel good. Powerful emotions accompany love, but it is the commitment of the will that shows true biblical love is steadfast and does not change. “The human personality is primarily comprised of three aspects---the intellect, the emotion, and the will.” (Praxis, 77) Emotions may change, but the commitment to love in a biblical way endures all and is the hallmark of a disciple of Christ. The opposite is also true; Biblical love will not be affected by emotion or one's circumstances. The greatest example of true love is shown in God's love for the sinner. Romans 5:8 says, "Commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." The lost sinner living in sin is...
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...dictionary and to try to prove to the person that makes such a claim that words exist. It is clear that He is, as we examined last month, suppressing a truth that is evident to all. He is a fool. He instead needs to be shown how foolish and contradictory such a claim is. It is self-refuting. You cannot claim that words do not exist without using them. This is what we must show this person to show them how ridiculous a statement this is. What do we say when someone says they do not believe in God? Do we respond in the same way? Not usually. Usually we respond by trying to give a list of evidences to the truth that God exists, when the Bible says that they already know that God exists. Instead, we should be responding with the same attitude that we would respond with if someone said they didn't believe in words. Just as the person who is suppressing the truth about the existence of words, so to is the one who claims that God does not exist. Remember what God says in Romans 1 (which we looked at last week)? Everyone is without excuse for rejecting the God they know exists. They are foolish for doing so. You cannot even make the argument that God does not exists unless God DOES exist, let alone prove it. This subject will be what we study today. I have titled this sermon, "Proof that God Exists." The proof that I will show this evening is not like the arguments that we would commonly hear people use to prove God exists, such as the Cosmological Argument, The Design Argument, etc...
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... of Knowledge (TOK) indicates four distinct ways of knowing: sense perception, emotion, reason and language; however, in this essay I will argue for the inclusion of intuition as a fifth way of knowing. Intuition is that moment of enlightenment that is unexpected in which something is revealed to give one a greater understanding on a problem or puzzle or issue of concern that is perplexing. A knowledge issue worth examining in relation to the role intuition plays in these areas of knowledge is: How does intuition lead to knowledge acquisition in the natural sciences and in ethics? Personal intuitive insight has to be in some form of communication which conforms to requirements of public knowledge, natural sciences conforming to scientific method to test the truth, ethics examining its ethical structure to test to what extent our personal insight can be applied to public knowledge. One ...
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...that very little in human life is determined by instinct. Because we humans have a relatively short gestation period in the womb (compared to other species), we don't have time to develop very elaborate instinctual equipment. We have very few instincts, and the ones we have are quite weak. So we have few specific responses to specific stimuli "patterned" into us. This means that in every situation we have a very large range of options for responding. We are constantly forced to choose how to interact with the world. In Berger's terminology, we must choose how to "externalize" ourselves, which means how to relate to and shape the environment around us. (Berger claims that in this respect we are different from all other animal species. He may well be wrong about other animal species; other animals may be a lot like us. But that doesn't mean he is wrong about human life.) Every time we externalize ourselves we change the environment, which creates a new set of choices to be faced. since the relationship between self and world is always changing, we are always "off balance." What we want more than anything else, according to this sociological view, is to be in balance--to have a permanent stable order in our lives, so that we can predict both the environment and the responses to it that we and others around us will choose. Society's main project is to create this sense of stable predictable order and to make all of us believe in it, although in fact it is always a false illusion. Society...
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...King David Jose A. Martinez BUS452A Organizational Behavior, CCU Prof. Wallace January 27, 2015 David was a great leader, and furthermore was devout to God. God looked on David’s heart and chose him to be Saul’s successor as king of Israel, and prepared him to take the kingdom. David was very different from Saul. Saul might have looked like a king, but lacked the heart and lost God’s favor. David’s accomplishments were many, but his failures will bring consequences to him and the nation of Israel. Besides his failures, David’s example is one that we all should learn from and apply to our lives. David’s preparation and credibility David’s secret anointing, pouring oil on his head, stood for holiness. Even though he was anointed to be king, he had to wait, to learn and grow in his circumstances. “People want leaders who are honest, forward-looking, inspiring and competent” (Tubbs, 1943, p. 277). God started preparing David for his future responsibilities. “David did receive something even more valuable – God’s Spirit” (Arnold & Beyer p. 201). He was chosen by Saul to be his musician, got him to be close to the current king, and that gave him a better understanding of how to run a kingdom. David bursts onto the scene with integrity, faith, courage, tenderness, and uncommon valor. He is the poet-warrior who changed the landscape of a nation. Differences David was the ultimate Jewish leader. He was courageous and strong in war, as well as an intelligent...
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...Personal Worldview & Business Ethics Paper Liberty University BMAL 560 January 25, 2015 STEP 1 To what extent should personal religious beliefs impact our decisions about business ethics? Personal religious beliefs should impact all decisions about business ethics. If your beliefs are truly mandated in your life, then you have no choice but to be fair and honest about your business decisions. Business decisions can sometimes be difficult and harsh, but that is no reason to comprise the integrity of what you believe in. In 2012, Summers & Summers concluded that from the “Christian worldview”, God is the source and creator of all things. This means that God has provided all the resources we need in order for those needs to be satisfied. Our task is to use these resources properly. (pp. 30). Psalms 24:1 tells us “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters” (NIV). To what extent do your personal religious (or non-religious) beliefs about life impact your sense of business ethics and personal decision-making? The extent of my owm personal religious beliefs about life impacted my sense of business ethics and personal decicion-making. As a new Revenue Agent for the Internal Revenue Service, my on-the-job trainer told me to always assume the taxpayer was a liar. I was not able to do that. I always let the records speak for themselves and I counted on my good...
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...Trust: A Concept Analysis The term trust encompasses a wide array of meaning. It can be regarded both as a logical and an emotional act. Trust can be defined as having utter belief in the reliability, ability or truth of any person or thing; it is a state where the acceptance of truth even without evidence or investigations becomes possible (Oxford University Press, 2013). However, according to Merriam-Webster (2013) trust is defined as a guaranteed reliance on the strength, character or the character of any entity. Trust is an utterly important concept, even when considering it from the perspective of the nurse management. As mentioned earlier, trust has an element of emotion and logic in it. It is considered logical where a person perceives the potential gains or losses of putting their reliance on someone, calculating the possible satisfaction derived out of putting their trust into them and only after carefully analyzing all these aspects, then deciding whether or not to trust someone. However, it can be referred as emotional when any entity exposes themselves to others, hoping that rather than taking advantage of their situation, the others would tend to understand their situation and support them open heatedly. There are various dimensions to trust, some of which could be defined under the terms of predictability, delayed reciprocity, value exchange and exposed vulnerabilities. Human beings have a knack of forecasting for their future and in doing so, it is imperative...
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...Truth is based from the word of God. A close examination of God’s Word shows us that humans aer made in the image of God with the capacity to seek and to know truth. Christian philosopher Gordon Clark puts it this way, “God has fashioned both the mind and the world so that they harmonize (Braley, 172). John 14:6 says “I am the way the truth and the Life”. Truth comes from within. Every person knows right from wrong and every person knows what a lie is and what the truth is. Truth in others is built on trust. Once you learn to trust someone you can tell if they are telling the truth or not. Some people, like Descarte, believe that anything that cannot be known with absolute certainty must be considered false until its truth is proven through observation, reason and experimentation (Dunn 126). Dewey believed that since problems of living are constantly changing, the instrument (or knowledge) for dealing with them has to change also. As a result, “truths” are tentative beliefs that change as the needs of the individuals in society change. People believe what leaders tell them, what society tells them and what their parents tell them. People are looking for truth and will believe what people tell them until it can no longer be proven. For the Christian educator as for Thomas Aquinas, any truth discovered in God’s world is God’s truth, so it is proper to give a prominent place in a Christian curriculum to the study of the natural sciences...
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...Outline 1. Trust is so important in creating effective ethical leadership 2. The sense of fair treatment within groups of people 3. Marketing, advertising and ethics interplay the idea of subjective and objective evaluation 4. The issue of bribe in proper ethical leadership 5. Summary 1. Trust is so important in creating effective ethical leadership Leaders are the most important and powerful influence on the culture of an organization and are responsible for creating credibility and trust. It is obvious that employees contribute more when they are working for something they believe in. From my observation, I found that if a leader cannot earn the trust and credibility from his team, he might lose his team at the end. Great leaders, like great companies and countries, create meaning, not just money. My industry must satisfy consumers’ expectations. The ends are the very reason for existence of the enterprise. At the same time, the means by which they achieve those ends are increasingly important. When employees have no clear picture of the moral or ethical stance of the organization, they tend to operate at the lowest perceived level. 2. The sense of fair treatment within groups of people Regarding recruitment, good organization should identified two major areas: • Diversification of sourcing to have access to a broader range of profiles • Objectifying the recruitment process to ensure fair selection Diversity is in our DNA and lies at...
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...Question: "Why should we read the Bible / study the Bible?" Answer: We should read and study the Bible because it is God's Word to us. The Bible is literally "God-breathed" (2 Timothy 3:16). In other words, it is God's very words to us. There are so many questions that philosophers have asked that God answers for us in Scripture. What is the purpose to life? Where did I come from? Is there life after death? How do I get to heaven? Why is the world full of evil? Why do I struggle to do good? In addition to these "big" questions, the Bible gives much practical advice in areas such as: What do I look for in a mate? How can I have a successful marriage? How can I be a good friend? How can I be a good parent? What is success and how do I achieve it? How can I change? What really matters in life? How can I live so that I do not look back with regret? How can I handle the unfair circumstances and bad events of life victoriously? We should read and study the Bible because it is totally reliable and without error. The Bible is unique among so-called "holy" books in that it does not merely give moral teaching and say, "Trust me." Rather, we have the ability to test it by checking the hundreds of detailed prophecies that it makes, by checking the historical accounts it records, and by checking the scientific facts it relates. Those who say the Bible has errors have their ears closed to the truth. Jesus once asked which is easier to say, "Your sins are forgiven you," or "Rise, take...
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