Concerning "integrity" ... it is crucial to keeps the entire scope of the word's etymological origin when using it to identify the quality or qualities of systems.
Completeness, wholeness, functional competence, and independent distinctness - are only -part- of the qualities-quilt of any given system. Any -relevence- a system has .. it's 'meaning' and value .. comes -only- from its place within the panorama of companioned existence. The concurrent qualia of systemic integrity is: integration. "integral with" .. intimately co-connected and part of. The notion of "integrity" doesn't just refer to a system's or organizations's/organism's -self competence- and being true to 'itself' .. but its symbiotic synchrony with the panoramic extension of systems it co-habitates with. Any 'morality' which is indifferent and insensistive to the milieu, in priority to some 'self', eventually destroys the support panorama the self needs to survive but never realized it. "Self" doesn't stop at the boundary of skin or shell. "-My- oxygen" which I need to live and survive .. resides in the vaster space beyond my regional 'body'. When I protect the domain(s) where the oxygen is 'stored' ... I protect "my self". When I protect -companion existence- ... I protect myself. When I recognize that ego of all, is as crucially important as ego of individual, does the 'wellness' of -existence- make rational -and- emotional .. sense. Jamie Rose "Integrity Paradigm" <http://www.ceptualinstitute.com> _______________________________________________ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es http://webmail.unizar.es/mailman/listinfo/fis