The Meaning of Integrity

The category of integrity is composed of the concepts of "sincerity" and "trust". Sincerity refers to sincerity and honesty; faith refers to trust, credit and trustworthiness. "Sincerity" and "faith" together as a scientific moral category, is a product of modern society. In modern society, the marketization and internationalization of the economy, the democratization and legalization of politics, as well as the diversification of cultures and modernization of ways of communication, all highlight the value of integrity and require the practice of integrity. We can define integrity as the psychological consciousness, principles, norms and behavioral activities that are adapted to the requirements of the development of modern market economy, closely related to the modern economic contractual relations and democratic politics, and inherited the traditional virtues of honesty, sincerity and honesty, the psychological consciousness, principles and norms and behavioral activities. The essence of integrity, from the following aspects to grasp:

First of all, integrity is a kind of people in the world, treating people and life practice must and should have a sincere and truth-seeking attitude and behavioral qualities to keep the promise, and its basic requirement is to speak the truth, do the truth, do the truthful, do the truthful people. The sincerity of honesty is sincerity and faithfulness; the faith of honesty is to keep one's word and keep one's promise, which are the basic qualities and character that modern people must and should have. Under the condition of market economy, people can only adapt to the requirements of social life and realize the value of their life by establishing the moral quality of sincerity and trustworthiness. Secondly, integrity is a kind of moral principles and norms of the society, which requires people to guide their actions with the principle of truthfulness and pragmatism, and treat all the work with the attitude of unity of knowledge and action. In modern society, integrity refers not only to the commercial integrity between citizens and legal persons, but also includes the social public **** integrity established on the basis of social justice, such as institutional integrity, national integrity, government integrity, corporate integrity and organizational integrity. That is to say, any government and system should be organized and constructed in accordance with the principle of integrity, and also need to exercise its authority in accordance with the principle of integrity. Once deviated from the principle and spirit of integrity, the government will lose faith in the people, the system will become an unreasonable burden.

Once again, integrity is the dialectical unity of the individual and society, psychology and behavior. Integrity is essentially the unity of ethics of virtue and ethics of norms or ethics of belief and ethics of responsibility, the unity of moralism and utilitarianism, the theory of ends and the theory of means. If "sincerity" emphasizes the sincerity of one's inner beliefs, a kind of character and virtue, then "faith" is the external manifestation of the inner character of sincerity, a kind of responsibility and norms. In Chinese history, there is a saying that "sincerity is in the center and faith is in the outside". Integrity is not only a kind of moral purpose, is a kind of belief that people should have, but also a kind of moral means, is a kind of social responsibility that people should undertake and the way to seek benefits to realize the benefits. Integrity can be both value-based and utilitarian, as well as moralistic and deontological. The value and utilitarian view of integrity treats integrity as a value and a means to an end, believing that people cannot realize their own development and perfection and can hardly achieve long-lasting and genuine benefits without integrity. The moralistic and deontological view of integrity, on the other hand, regards integrity as an obligation and an inherent requirement, believing that people's pursuit of integrity is a necessity for improving their own qualities and realizing comprehensive development, and that even if integrity does not bring about material benefits, it is still invaluable. We advocate the combination of moralism and utilitarianism on the issue of integrity, and regard the pursuit of integrity as a means of profit-making and development, and regard the pursuit of integrity as a sacred mission and inherent obligations, so that the pursuit of integrity is both sublime and practical, both great and ordinary, which reflects the value qualities of the traditional Chinese culture advocated by the "extremely brilliant and mediocre". "

The value qualities of the traditional Chinese culture.

Honesty is the root and essence of all morality. It is not only a personal virtue and quality, but also a social moral principle and norm; not only an inner spirit and value, but also an outer reputation and resources. Integrity is the embodiment of morality and righteousness, and at the same time is the guarantee or source of utilitarianism.

Functions and Roles of IntegrityIn social life, integrity has not only educational, motivational and evaluative functions, but also restraining, normative and regulatory functions. As far as individuals are concerned, integrity is a noble personality strength; as far as enterprises are concerned, integrity is a valuable intangible asset; as far as the society is concerned, integrity is the normal order of production and life; as far as the country is concerned, integrity is a good international image.

First, integrity is the foundation of the individual. Integrity is an individual must have the moral quality and character. If a person does not have integrity of character and quality, not only is it difficult to form the inner unity of the complete self, and it is difficult to play their potential and success. Cheng Hao Cheng Yi pointed out: "Scholars can not be dishonest, not honest, not honest no good, not honest no gentleman. If you do not study with sincerity, your studies will be mixed; if you do not work with sincerity, your work will fail; if you do not work with sincerity, you are deceiving your heart and abandoning your loyalty; if you do not work with sincerity with others, you are losing your morality and increasing their resentment." (Henan Cheng's Legacy, Volume 25) "Sincerity" is not only the basis and foundation of virtue and goodness, but also the guarantee of success in all endeavors. "Faith" is the symbol of a person's image and reputation, and is also the minimum moral quality that a person should have. Confucius said: "If a person has faith, he will be appointed." "If a man has no faith, he does not know what he can do." Sincerity in the middle must be believed in the outside. If a person's heart has sincerity, his mouth must have words of faith; if his heart has sincerity and his mouth has words of faith, his body must have honest behavior. Integrity is an important guarantee for the realization of self-worth, but also an internal requirement for personal cultivation of virtue and goodness. Lack of integrity will put the self into a very embarrassing situation, and it is difficult for individuals to make affirmative judgments and evaluations of their own life existence. At the same time, the lack of integrity not only deceives oneself, but also inevitably deceives others, and this self-deception destroys both the sound self and interpersonal relationships. Therefore, honesty is the foundation of the individual, the treasure of the world. Individuals seek moral cultivation and moral self-education to cultivate an ideal personality, which requires self-edification and self-cultivation by means of sincerity and faithfulness. Ancient Chinese thinkers emphasized the position and role of "sincerity of heart" and "sincerity of body" in personal moral cultivation, believing that the key to moral cultivation is to have a sincere heart and a sincere will. The degree of sincerity determines the height of moral cultivation, and it can be said that "where sincerity is present, gold and stone are opened" and "there is no one in the world who cannot be transformed, but I am afraid that sincerity has not yet arrived; there is nothing in the world that cannot be done, but I am afraid that the will to do it is not strong enough." Therefore, the Chinese people put special emphasis on "being a person of color, saying sincere words, doing real things".

Second, integrity is the foundation of enterprises and institutions. Integrity as a universally applicable moral principles and norms, is the establishment of a virtuous interaction between the industry, the unit of moral leverage. Honesty and trustworthiness are important norms in the construction of socialist professional ethics. Honesty and trustworthiness is a code of conduct that all practitioners must and should follow in their professional activities, which covers the relationship between practitioners and service recipients, between professions and employees, and between professions and professions?

Third, honesty is the foundation of the national government. The main body of the state is the people, the sovereignty of the state is also attributed to the people. Ancient Chinese political ethics emphasize that "the people are the foundation of the state, the foundation of the state", "the people are the most important, the gods of earth and grain are second, the king is light", "the people's hearts win the world, the people's hearts are lost lose the world", that the leaders of the country should be sincere, honest and sincere. The leader of a country should win the trust of the people with a sincere attitude and method, so as to achieve the people living and working in peace and contentment, and the country being peaceful and clear. Wei Zheng of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his petition to Emperor Taizong, "He who seeks the growth of a tree must strengthen its foundation; he who wishes to flow far must dredge its source; he who contemplates the peace of a nation must accumulate its virtue and righteousness." (The first of the Chingguan Political Essentials - On the Way of the King) The way to rule the country lies in the noble virtue and reverence for righteousness, and the main content of virtue and righteousness is honesty and integrity. Liu Zongyuan said: "letter, the government's standing, can not be gone in a moment." Sima Guang of the Song Dynasty pointed out in the "Ziji Tongjian": "The letter, the great treasure of the ruler. The country to protect the people, the people to protect the letter. Non-belief can not make the people, non-people can not keep the country. Therefore, the ancient king does not deceive the four seas, the hegemon does not deceive the four neighbors. Those who are good for the country do not deceive their people, and those who are good for the family do not deceive their relatives. Those who are not good do the opposite, bully their neighbors, bully their people, or even bully their brothers, bully their fathers and sons. The top does not trust the bottom, the bottom does not trust the top, and the top and bottom are centrifuged, resulting in defeat." The above remarks show that honesty is the basic criterion for leaders to govern the country, and honesty constitutes the national virtue and governs the national fortune, without which the national virtue of honesty can't have a long and upward national fortune. In modern society, democratic politics has become a trend and tendency, which requires more integrity as the basic principle of governing the country. The core of politics is power. The historical form of political power is private or centralized power, while the power under democratic politics is public power. Public power means that power is owned by the people and essentially serves the people, and the legitimacy of power comes from the people's trust. The loss of the people's trust is the basis for the legitimacy of power. Our country is a socialist country, and building a high degree of democratic politics is an important task in the construction of socialist political civilization.

Let's look at a story about integrity: ?

In New York stands the "Civil War Memorial", every year there are many visitors to pay tribute to the dead. The 18th President of the United States, the Civil War as commander-in-chief of the Northern Army General Grant's mausoleum, located in the northern part of the park. Mausoleum tall and majestic, solemn and simple. Behind the mausoleum is a large turquoise lawn that stretches all the way to the border of the park and the edge of a steep cliff. Behind General Grant's mausoleum, closer to the edge of the cliff, was another mausoleum for a small child. It was a very small, very ordinary tomb, and in any other place you might have overlooked it. It had, like the vast majority of American mausoleums, only a small headstone. On the headstone and on a wooden plaque next to it is a touching story about honesty:

The story took place more than two hundred years ago, in 1797. In that year, the young owner of this land was only five years old when he accidentally fell off the cliff here and died. His father, heartbroken, buried him here and built this tiny mausoleum in his honor. A few years later, the family declined and the old owner had to transfer this land. Out of love for his son, he made a peculiar request to the future owner of the land; he asked the new owner to keep the child's mausoleum as part of the land and never destroy it. The new owner agreed and put this condition in the deed. In this way, the child's mausoleum was preserved. A hundred years passed. This piece of land has been sold many times and changed owners, and the child's name has long been forgotten, but the child's mausoleum is still there, and it has been preserved intact according to one deed of sale or purchase after another. By 1897, this windswept site was chosen for the General Grant Mausoleum. The government became the owner of the land, and the tomb of the unnamed child, intact in government hands, became a neighbor to General Grant's mausoleum. The tomb of a great history maker, and the tomb of a nameless child adjacent to it, may be a unique spectacle in the world.... ?

Another hundred years later, in 1997, then-New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani came here to honor General Grant. At that time, it happened to be the 100th anniversary of the establishment of General Grant's mausoleum and the bicentennial of the child's death, Mayor Giuliani personally wrote this moving story and carved it into a wooden plaque that stood next to the mausoleum of the unnamed child, so that this story of honesty would be passed down from generation to generation.......

Pinyin: cheng xin

Chinese name: honesty

Origin: Rituals of the Rituals

Proximate meaning: honest ?

Antonym: Breach of trust ?

1, words and phrases

Honesty: to act in good faith with a sincere heart.

Honesty: sincerity, truthfulness, honesty; faith, trust, evidence. Therefore, honesty is honesty, keeping one's word, matching words with deeds, and being consistent.

2, the noun summary

"Sincerity" is mainly from the heavenly, "letter" is mainly from the human way. Therefore, Mencius said: "Sincerity is the way of heaven; sincerity is the way of man."

"Sincerity" is inherent in nature, following the way of heaven, the pursuit of honesty, which is the reason, the law. Although there is a difference between the two philosophically, but from a moral point of view, "sincerity" and "faith" is a synonymous and equivalent concepts, so Xu Shen in the "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" cloud: "Sincerity, faith also." "Faith, sincerity." The basic meaning is honesty, keeping promises, matching words with deeds, and being consistent in appearance, which is the basic requirement of being a human being.

In a general sense, "sincerity" means honesty and sincerity, mainly referring to the subject's sincere inner moral quality; "faith" means credit and trust, mainly referring to the subject's internal sincerity of externalization. "Sincerity" refers more to "internal sincerity in the heart", while "trust" focuses on "external trust in people". The combination of "sincerity" and "trust" forms a word with rich connotations both internally and externally, and its basic meaning is honesty and trustworthiness. For thousands of years, honesty has been regarded by the Chinese people as their own behavioral norms and moral cultivation, and on the basis of the basic meaning of the word, the concept of honesty with its unique characteristics and rich connotations has been formed. The meaning of letter is to believe.

"Sincerity" and "faith" were used separately at the beginning as ethical norms and moral standards. Mencius said, "Sincerity is the way of heaven, and sincerity is the way of man." In the Middle Ages, it is also said, "Sincerity is the way of heaven, and sincerity is the way of man." The basic meaning of faith is to keep one's promises, to be consistent with one's words and deeds, and to be truthful and trustworthy. The first use of the words "sincerity" and "faith" together was in the Book of Yi Zhou: "Adulthood is not savored, and faith and sincerity are used to assist in the cultivation of wealth." "The filial piety and kindness between father and son, the friendship and harmony between brothers, the loyalty and foolishness between ruler and minister, and the sincerity and faith between townspeople." The word "faith and sincerity" here actually means "honesty". That is to say, in a general sense, integrity refers to honesty and trustworthiness, emphasizing that people should treat each other sincerely.

The Book of Rites: The Sacrifices of the Wise: The Sacrifices of the Wise: The Sacrifices of the Wise: The Sacrifices of the Wise: The Sacrifices of the Wise, the Sacrifices of the Honest, the Honest, the Honest, the Honest. New Tang Book - Cao Hua Biography: "Although Hua is from the military, but the movement must be by the ritual, love and respect the scholars, do not take pride in the people, to the guy vertical must be treated with honesty, people think it is difficult. Ye Shih, "Epitaph of Li Gong, Junior Secretary of the Imperial Household": Wu Xing Li Gong, the former Counselor of Political Affairs, served Emperor Xiaozong with honesty and integrity. Guo Moruo "Soviet Union Chronicle - June 30": a big leader does not care every banquet, must come to a set of big speeches. Integrity has been Fu, the idea has been moved to practice, do not speak than to speak is even greater.

The meaning of sincerity

"Sincerity" is the central idea of Confucianism, the way of the world, when the integrity of the world. Zhu Xi, a Song Dynasty scholar of science, believes that the sincere, the real without falsehood. "Sincerity" is a virtue. Famous Quotations: "Sincerity is the way of heaven, the way of heaven rewards sincerity". Words and deeds must follow the Way of Heaven, speak the truth, do real things, and oppose hypocrisy. It means honesty.

The Meaning of Xin

The Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining and Analysing Characters in Chinese) says, "The words of a person are called Xin", and Cheng Yi says, "To be truthful is to be trustworthy." Visible, "letter" not only requires people to speak honestly and reliably, avoid big words, empty words, false words, but also requires to do things honestly and reliably. And the basic connotation of "letter" is to keep promises, words and deeds are consistent, honesty.

"Sincerity" is mainly in terms of the way of heaven, and "faith" is mainly in terms of the way of man. Therefore, Mencius said: "Sincerity is the way of heaven; sincerity is the way of man."

"Sincerity" is inherent in nature, following the way of heaven, the pursuit of honesty, which is the reason, the law. Although there is a difference between the two philosophically, but from a moral point of view, "sincerity" and "faith" is a synonymous and equivalent concepts, so Xu Shen in the "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" cloud: "Sincerity, faith also." "Faith, sincerity." The basic meaning is honesty, keeping promises, matching words with deeds, and being consistent in appearance, which is the basic requirement for being a human being.

In a general sense, "sincerity" means honesty and sincerity, which mainly refers to the subject's sincere inner moral quality; "faith" means credit and trust, which mainly refers to the externalization of the subject's inner sincerity. "Sincerity" refers more to "internal sincerity in the heart", while "trust" focuses on "external trust in people". The combination of "sincerity" and "trust" forms a word with rich connotations both internally and externally, and its basic meaning is honesty and trustworthiness. For thousands of years, honesty has been regarded by the Chinese people as their own behavioral norms and moral cultivation, and on the basis of the basic meaning of the word, the concept of honesty with its unique characteristics and rich connotations has been formed. The meaning of letter is to believe.

"Sincerity" and "faith" were used separately at the beginning as ethical norms and moral standards. Mencius said, "Sincerity is the way of heaven, and sincerity is the way of man." In the Middle Ages, it is also said, "Sincerity is the way of heaven, and sincerity is the way of man." The basic meaning of faith is to keep one's promises, to be consistent with one's words and deeds, and to be truthful and trustworthy. The first use of the words "sincerity" and "faith" together was in the Book of Yi Zhou: "Adulthood is not savored, and faith and sincerity are used to assist in the cultivation of wealth." "The filial piety and kindness between father and son, the friendship and harmony between brothers, the loyalty and stupidity between ruler and minister, and the sincerity and faith between townspeople." The word "faith and sincerity" here actually means "honesty". That is to say, in a general sense, integrity refers to honesty, not to deceive, to seek credit, emphasizing that people should treat each other sincerely.