Reading Aloud

Read the following sentences aloud, paying special attention to liaison.

1. Life is like a field of newly fallen snow; whereI choose to walk every step will show.

2. They understood instinctively that integrity means having a personal standard of morality and ethics that does not sell out to expediency ...

3. Don’t be afraid of those who might have a better idea or who might even be smarter than you are.

4. Don’t engage in a personal cover-up of areas that are unpleasing in your life.

5. Self-respect and a clear conscience are components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. 

  

 

Cultural Information

1. Quote

   

     Follow your own course, and let people talk.

                                                                        ---Dante Alighieri

  

2. Belief

 

    The concept of belief presumes a subject (the believer) and an object ofbelief (the proposition). So, like other propositional attitudes, belief implies the existence of mental states and intentionality, both of which are hotly debated topics in the philosophy of mind whose foundations and relation to brain states are still controversial.

Beliefs are sometimes divided into core beliefs (those you may beactively thinking about) and dispositional beliefs (those you may ascribe tobut have never previously thought about). For example, if asked "do you believe tigers wear pink pajamas?", a person might answer that they do not, despite the fact they may never have thought about this situation before.

That a belief is a mental state has been seen, by some, as contentious.While some philosophers have argued that beliefs are represented in the mind as sentence-like constructs, others have gone as far as arguing that thereis no consistent or coherent mental representation that underlies our common use of the belief concept and that it is therefore obsolete and should be rejected.

 

 

Audiovisual Supplement

 

 

 

 

 

Main Idea

 

Summarize the main idea of the text.

The writer realizes the present scarcity and the real importance of integrity. He wants to tell us that integrity is what is fundamental in every area of society and that it is something we must demand of ourselves. He wants to convince us that only by standing firmly for our convictions in the face of personal pressure, by always giving others credit that is rightfully theirs and by being honest and open about what we really are, can we live a rich life of principle and success.

 

 

Structural Analysis

 

1. Work out the structure of the text by completing the table.

 

Paragraph(s)	Main idea
1-2	This part contains a contrast: the author’s grandparents and  their generation firmly believed in ___1___ and demonstrated it by the way  they lived, but nowadays ____2____ is getting scarcer.
3-14	This part is devoted to an explanation of what the author calls  ______3___________.
15	The writer further explains what integrity means and points out  what ________4___________a life of principle will bring you.

 

2. What are the two methods the author uses to explain the three principles that constitute the Integrity Triad?

The writer explains the principles mainly by using examples (as in the explanation of the first two principles) and persuasion (as in that of the third).