How Important Are Intentions?

Soul theory argues that what makes a person who they are is not their physical presence, however, it is a person’s soul that differentiates them from an other living being (Perry, pp 3). The soul is one’s consciousness, their mind, allowing them to be present, experience and make decisions (Weisberg, January 2016). One’s personal identity is directly linked to one’s soul, if one has the same soul they are the same person (Perry, pp 4).

At the same time, we have a need for positive self-regard - to develop a sense of trust in the accuracy and reliability of our own inner experienced, it is on this we must depend if we are to become independent from and able to make good decisions about life and how we are to be in it.

Throughout this course, we have explored both ancient and contemporary worldviews that have helped us answer the question: “What is the Self”? Apuleius had a very different approach to formulate an answer to this question then did other contemporary authors which will both be discussed in length.

Since the beginning of time, the environment in which one is accustomed to provides them with the choices that lead down paths that make their legacy. This environment can be negative or positive, structured or chaotic, rich or poor, all which give a variety of choices. Regardless of the different trials and tribulations we face ultimately, it is the choices we make in response that make us the person we become.

Everything begins with oneself, one must create an identity that helps to benefit their surrounding and themselves as making the right decisions can affect the outcome of the universe. “All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change” (Butler 79, Sower).

life: seeing the world in relationship to oneself alone, versus viewing the world as an aggregate.

Throughout time the need for an efficient way transmit codes were essential to success, after World War I and into the start of World War II American forces was running out of ideas for codes. The USA had always used the white’s soldiers for the code talkers because there were easy to train, and a abundance of them to choose making them the practice choose for code talkers. Until Philip Johnston, he was an initiator that worked for a Marine Corps ' program. As a kid and into his teens he grew up on a Navajo reservation and his dad was a missionary. Whit all the time that Johnston spent of the reservation he became familiar with the people and their language. With the use of the Navajos it grained equality for Native Americans which was not found in the late 1800’s, and soon it gained them a greater respect by the whites into today’s age.

Studying the Constructive Development Theory (CDT) also provided a foundation to identify where I fit on the spectrum of adult development. Constructive developmental theory is an eye opening explanation of how people make meaning at different stages of consciousness. This theory identifies numerous areas of human development that an individual may be “subject to” or “hold object.” Each phase of development designates twelve specific factors that humans will use to make meaning from. Analyzing how a person’s meaning making or pinpointing the factors they are “subject to” or “hold object,” helps us to define an individual’s Order of Mind. Jennifer Garvey Berger (1999) explains in her guide, Key Concepts for Understanding the Work of Robert Kegan, that “things that are Subject are by definition experienced as unquestioned, simply part of self” (p. 2). For me, this concept revealed that I was subject to my behavior and attitude regarding my personal time management. I considered my lack of

• encourage you to develop self awareness of your own personal values through critical reflection.

The relation between the self and the otherness is necessary to define human awareness and more importantly desire. This desire is part of the primordial human

The question of when is it justified to disclose patient confidentiality depends on the risks associated. Keeping of patients’ records remains important to any clinical officer. The CMA code of ethics advices the keeping of patient’s personal health information private and can only be released to the third party as outlined by law (Fowler, 2008). In the case study, patient’s confidentiality has been put to test in that there first existed keeping of the patient records confidential and proper treatment was offered but this has been betrayed. The forgery of the record and refused to cooperate with the patient poses a threat to the recovery of the correct information necessitating reporting the case to the police; acting according to the state

The role of women over decides in different types of cultures was similar, clean, make the food for the family, etc. However, in the mid-nineteenth this idea of this way of women life start to move towards more rights. Women would like to get a better education to help the family, also have voice in public and be tread equally. A women who support this was Margent. She was raised by her farther who teach that boys and girls are equal to each other. She was a writer of the revolutionary sentiments where she put that men and women should have the same rights. Many people was shock by this idea about gender bring equal to each other.

The true definition of intention is not very clear, as there are different definitions by different courts. The term ‘intention’ in criminal law has been defined as direct intention whereby a consequence is intended and desired by the defendant, and indirect (oblique) intentionwhereby the defendant can foresee a virtual certainty.Many seriouscrimes require the proof of intention or recklessness on the part of defendant, and in criminal proceedings, the court or jury must decide whether the accused has the intention or the ability to foresee the result of his actions by reference to all circumstances of the case. Thus, ‘intention’ can be classified as particular, general and

Each action we take as humans determines our personal character and ethical theories guide us and teach us right from wrong (Mosser, 2013).

In his essay “The Concept of a Person,” Charles Taylor poses the argument that our ability to assess and reassess significances and use them to shape ourselves is what