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.