AQUINO, MARK Promise Keeping

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1) Promise keeping: to do what you have told someone that you would do

Keeping Promises in a sentence


• I made a promise to you and I intend to keep it.
• I joined a gym to keep a promise I made to myself to get in shape.
• The senator insisted that he was keeping his promise not to raise taxes.
• He said he would help us and he kept his word.
• They have promised new jobs, but so far there's no sign that they're going to keep their word.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/keep-your-promise-word
2) Autonomy - literally, self rule, but probably better described as deliberated self rule - is a special attribute
of all moral agents. If we have autonomy we can make our own decisions on the basis of deliberation;
sometimes we can intend to do things as a result of those decisions; and sometimes we can do those
things to implement the decisions (what I previously described as autonomy of thought, of will or
intention, and of action). Respect for autonomy is the moral obligation to respect the autonomy of others
in so far as such respect is compatible with equal respect for the autonomy of all potentially affected.
Respect for autonomy is also sometimes described, in Kantian terms, as treating others as ends in
themselves and never merely as means - one of Kant's formulations of his "categorical imperative."
In health care respecting people's autonomy has many prima facie implications. It requires us to consult
people and obtain their agreement before we do things to them - hence the obligation to obtain informed
consent from patients before we do things to try to help them. Medical confidentiality is another
implication of respecting people's autonomy. We do not have any general obligation to keep other
people's secrets, but health care workers explicitly or implicitly promise their patients and clients that
they will keep confidential the information confided to them. Keeping promises is a way of respecting
people's autonomy; an aspect of running our own life depends on being able to rely on the promises
made to us by others. Without such promises of confidentiality patients are also far less likely to divulge
the often highly private and sensitive information that is needed for their optimal care; thus maintaining
confidentiality not only respects patients' autonomy but also increases the likelihood of our being able
to help them.
https://www.ht.lu.se/media/utbildning/dokument/kurser/FPRB01/20132/gillon.pdf
3) Kant’s Formula of Humanity (FH) is considered by many, Kant included, to be the most intuitively
appealing formulation of the categorical imperative.1 FH tells us that to treat persons with dignity and
respect we must always treat them as ends in themselves and never as mere means. One set of issues
raised by FH revolves around how FH is to be justified or grounded and how it relates to the other
formulations of the categorical imperative. This set of issues, though important, is not our focus here.
Instead, we shall focus on a different set of issues: how do we apply or use this formula in practice, that
is, how does this principle work as a moral guide to what duties and obligations we have in particular
cases? This paper will seek to answer that question by defending an interpretation and rational
reconstruction of FH in terms of two subsidiary principles,2 the Mere Means Principle (MMP), which
grounds perfect duties, and the Ends in Themselves Principle (ETP), which grounds imperfect duties.
These two principles will then be applied to a number of examples to illustrate how they work.
https://philarchive.org/archive/FORDAR

4) If you are like most people, you make commitments to others all the time. Question is – how often do
you keep your promise? It is impossible to follow through on every single one you make in life, but how
many you break and how you handle it when you do is key to understanding yourself. Just so we are
clear, a promise, as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is: “a declaration that one will do or refrain
from doing something specified; or a legally binding declaration that gives the person to whom it is made
a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act.” When we don’t keep a
promise to someone, it communicates to that person that we don’t value him or her. We have chosen to
put something else ahead of our commitment. Even when we break small promises, others learn that
they cannot count on us. Tiny fissures develop in our relationships marked by broken promises. We are
not only communicating all of this to others, we are telling ourselves that we don’t value our own word.
We think it is okay to let someone down, to say something we don’t mean, or to fail to follow through on
something we said we would do. Not keeping a promise is the same as disrespecting yourself. Ultimately
it can harm our self-image, self-esteem, and our life.
https://michellegielan.com/psychology-today-why-keeping-your-promise-is-good-for-
you/#:~:text=When%20we%20don't%20keep,relationships%20marked%20by%20broken%20promises
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