Personal Ethics
Contributing Articles in Personal Ethics
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How to Create Value to Make Life Worthwhile
Life, to have meaning, must have value that can only come through hard work and effort. It's how life is used that determines ultimate success or failure.
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How to Achieve Self-Fulfillment
There was a time when people lived up to a code of ethics. While today's world is filled with greed and corruption, those values can be regained to make life meaningful.
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Vegetarianism -- Every Woman's Responsibility
Women who are inherently nurturers and care givers can play a leading role as supporters and initiators of the vegetarian diet according to feminist author Carol Adams.
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Conflict Free Diamonds are the Ethical Choice
Diamonds in the form of wedding or engagement rings or any other form of jewelery are treasured and cherished items. Make sure you only buy non-conflict diamonds.
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How to Forgive
Emotional wounds can fester and deepen in the absence of forgiveness, and it is important for one's own mental health to learn how to shed the burden of rage.
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How to Acquire Wealth
Many people only dream of wealth. But they really don't know what it takes to get wealthy, nor do they understand what money really is and should be used for.
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Drive-Thru Etiquette Keeps Customers in Line
Anyone who's worked at a business drive-thru window has dealt with ill-mannered customers. What thoughtless behaviors rate worst for employees and other patrons in line?
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The Basis of Secular Ethics
Where do Atheists get their ethics? Is humanism an Atheistic philosophy? How does morality function without faith and religion?
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How to Live the Ethical Life
Even if you have a tight budget, you can still live a good, ethical life by buying Fairtrade goods, buying homegrown and buying from charity shops.
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Twelve Steps Towards Happiness
Happiness research has shown what governments and communities can do to improve the well-being of citizens. It all has to do with stability and relationships.
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Public Economics and Social Harmony
Achieving healthy communities may require a radical re-think of how governments measure well-being and tax citizens.
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Fair Trade and Ethical Shopping
Given the environmental impact of shipping products around the world, is the most ethical choice always to buy locally?
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Green or Hungry?
Is it true that ethical shoppers have to choose between action to reduce global warming and steps to end world hunger?
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Forgiveness Brings Freedom
An explanation of what forgiveness is and the high cost of witholding it.
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Learning to Eat Mindfully
For people trying to bring their approach to food into line with their belief in sustainability, the task can be daunting. Here are some ways to make the change easier.
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Walking by Faith
Meet Florence Howland whose life was all prayer. She helped those suffering the miseries of poverty and saw the lives of women in prison changed.
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Defining Ethics
What are personal ethics? Does everyone have them? And what are they for? This article explores the philosophy of ethics and human nature.
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Developing Personal Ethics
Ethics are personal. Everyone has a different foundation on which they build their moral code. Explore five factors that contribute to the development of personal ethics.
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Ask: Is it True? Kind? Necessary?
Speaking mindfully is as simple as cultivating the habit of first asking "Is it true? Is it kind? Is it Necessary?". How Yoga's Yamas and Niyamas support this philosophy.
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The Anatomy of Ethics
Does it matter? Must we delve so deep into the principles that keep our heads above water? Maybe the easiest route is the easiest route; why leave the shallow?
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Situational Ethics; Modern Folly
Life with no boundaries - this is where tolerance has brought us. No one dares claim a definitive value for right and wrong; but in the end what will claim us?
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Protection Against Road Rage
Road rage is scary. Motorists may feel unsafe in their own vehicle and worry about what may happen next. But some simple techniques can help drivers deal with this.
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Second-Guessing Your Partner
Too many people jeopardize good relationships by assuming they know what their partners want to hear.
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Getting It Wrong
A lot of us jump to conclusions when we half-overhear something or see only part of what someone's doing, and make it worse by relating our mistaken conclusions to others
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Vying for Friendship
Many people seem to need to control their friendships, and they often try to do it in a way that jeopardizes what they're trying to control.
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