Essential Concepts of Identity, Ethics, and Society

Personal Identity

Personal identity is the awareness of oneself as a separate entity from the outside world.

Questions Concerning the Human Condition

Questions concerning the human condition are those that attempt to respond to the great enigmas of life.

Moral Inquiry

Moral inquiry refers to questions that try to answer dilemmas such as: "What should I do?"

Societal Challenges and Ethical Responses

Addressing societal challenges and ethical responses involves responding to the aspirations and difficulties of daily life in our societies.

Personality

Personality is the set of characteristics that determine the way of being and acting in a person.

Feelings

Feelings are all emotions, sensations, and sentiments that arise in us when we relate to the things that surround us.

Intelligence

Intelligence is the ability to direct our behavior to deal successfully with new situations and relate to the environment.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is the ability to deal with our moods, feelings, and emotions and relate positively and effectively with things and with others.

Memory

Memory is very important to our personal identity; it allows us to get a sense of ourselves along time.

Dignity

Dignity implies having minimum material and social conditions that allow a person to have an adequate life.

Equality

Equality refers to peer-to-peer relationships with people in the environment without any discrimination or disadvantage based on sex, race, religion, etc.

Moral Values

Moral values are those human qualities and ideals we cherish especially.

Moral Norms

Moral norms are patterns of behavior or rules that have as their origin a moral value.

Moral Subjectivism

Moral subjectivism is the position that each person is free to acquire and adopt certain moral values as guides for behavior.

Moral Universalism

Moral universalism maintains that, to facilitate life, we share basic moral standards that anyone can recognize as valid and desirable for oneself and for others.

Moral Development

Moral development is the maturation from heteronomy, which involves acting thoughtlessly or based on the authority of another, to moral autonomy, which involves acting according to rules on which we have reflected and intended to be the best for any human being.

Natural Liberty

Natural liberty is the right a person has to act in one manner or another, or not to act.

Morality

Morality is the set of behaviors, attitudes, and values transmitted by custom or tradition within a given human group, which obliges all members.

Ethics

Ethics is a philosophical reflection based on critical analysis and reason, to consider and facilitate the coexistence of different moralities.

Politics

Politics is the disposition to reflect on the administration and governance of society and act on them through the use of power and authority.