• 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.
