These are the coins
The coins with the different social and human values could be a currency. Just assuming it actually is one, how do you pay with it? How does one pay with patience or truth, with sustainability or loyalty? When I buy something with money in the classical sense, I get a corresponding countervalue in the form of an object or a service. What do I get for loyalty or for patience or for humility or for empathy?
Even if we want to break it down even further and just give one of these coins away. To whom do I give patience or truth or sustainability or wisdom? And how will my counterpart take it, as a “calling attention” to a deficiency or as an award?
These are the coins
Das sind die Münzen
Die Münzen mit den unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen und menschlichen Werten könnten eine Währung sein. Nur mal angenommen, es ist tatsächlich eine, wie bezahlt man damit? Wie bezahlt man mit Geduld oder Wahrheit, mit Nachhaltigkeit oder Loyalität? Wenn ich mit Geld im klassischen Sinne etwas kaufe, bekomme ich einen entsprechenden Gegenwert in Form eines Gegenstandes oder einer Leistung. Was bekomme ich für Loyalität oder für Geduld oder für Demut oder für Empathie?
Selbst wenn wir es noch weiter herunterbrechen und eine dieser Münzen nur verschenken möchten. Wem schenke ich Geduld oder Wahrheit oder Nachhaltigkeit oder Weisheit? Und wie wird mein Gegenüber es auffassen, als ein „aufmerksam machen“ auf einen Mangel oder als Auszeichnung?
Das sind die Münzen
empathy
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respect
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liberty
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ecology
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reflection
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equality
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charity
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modesty
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sustainability
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hospitality
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humility
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gratitude
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loyalty
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wisdom
Wisdom Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to contemplate and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes…
justice
Justice Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes “deserving” being…
truth
Truth Truth is the property of being consistent with facts or reality. In everyday language, truth is typically attributed to things that aim to represent…
courage
Courage Courage (also called bravery or valour) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Valour is courage or bravery.…
patience
Patience Patience is the ability to endure difficult circumstances. Patience may involve perseverance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in disrespect/anger;…
humanity
Humanity Humanity is a virtue linked with basic ethics of altruism derived from the human condition. It also symbolises human love and compassion towards each…