SELF-RESPECT

•   Valuing oneself in morally appropriate ways.

•   Integral to finding meaning in one’s life and work

•   A pre-requisite for pursuing other moral ideals and virtues.

•   Self-respect  is  a  moral  concept  of  properly  valuing  oneself  but  self-esteem  is  a psychological concept of positive attitude towards oneself.

Self-respect takes two forms.

1. Recognition self-respect is properly valuing oneself because of one’s inherent moral worth, the same worth that every other human being has.

2. Appraisal self-respect is properly valuing ourselves according to how well we meet moral standards and our personal ideals.

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