honesty

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Honesty is the moral property of Honest One (of "honest", OHG. "Êrlîh" mhd. "Erlich") and is now mostly in the importance of honesty , sincerity , truthfulness , openness , honesty and fairness used.

The honor (honor) as a personal attribute, as a result of honesty (honest behavior) are considered. At the same time, the development of "honest" and "honesty" is ongoing. Until a few decades ago, an honest person was only understood to be someone who does not lie and does not steal: this has been the demand since the Enlightenment. The upbringing for honesty or - to put it negatively - the loathing of lies remained a central concern of educational practice. In more recent times - shortly after the Second World War, through literary works such as Osborne's Look back in Anger or Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim - an expansion of meaning has taken place: those people are now also considered to be “honest” those who stand by themselves, their quirks, their deficits, their developmental disorders, etc. (reflect) and don't gloss over anything. A distinction is made between honesty in speaking, which means telling the truth , and honesty in behavior, for example in order not to manipulate others, not to deceive in order not to harm others or to perceive an order (without one's own advantage and in the sense of a fair client) bring it to an objective conclusion.

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Web links

Wiktionary: honesty  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Rein (ed.): Encyclopädisches Handbuch der Pädagogik, Volume 2, 1904 ( books.google.com ).
  2. ↑ honestly. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 3 : E – research - (III). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1862, Sp. 69-71 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  3. ↑ Honesty . Duden. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Koch : The Kaspar Hauser Effect. About dealing with children. Opladen 1995. ISBN 978-3-8100-1359-0 .
  5. ↑ Real and False Honesty . In: Ilse and Ernst Leisi: Language etiquette or how and what should I talk? Tübingen 1993, pp. 173-176. Retrieved March 28, 2010.
  6. ↑ (Bollnow, quoted from Wickert, Das Buch der Tugenden. P. 234 f.)