To Mature Is In Part To Realize

Confidentiality Refers To The Boundaries Surrounding Shared Secrets And To The Process Of Guarding These Boundaries. While Confidentiality Protects Much That Is Not In Fact Secret, Personal Secrets Lie At Its Core. The Innermost, The Vulnerable, Often The Shameful: These Aspects Of Self-disclosure Help Explain Why One Name For Professional Confidentiality Has Been "the Professional Secret." Such Secrecy Is Sometimes Mistakenly Confused With Privacy; Yet It Can Concern Many Matters In No Way Private, But That Someone Wishes To Keep From The Knowledge Of Third Parties.

While All Deception Requires Secrecy, All Secrecy Is Not Meant To Deceive.

Some Level Of Truthfulness Has Always Been Seen As Essential To Human Society, No Matter How Deficient The Observance Of Other Moral Principles.

Three Sorts Of Goods, Aristotle Specified, Contribute To Happiness: Goods Of The Soul, Including Moral And Intellectual Virtues And Education; Bodily Goods, Such As Strength, Good Health, Beauty, And Sound Senses; And External Goods, Such As Wealth, Friends, Good Birth, Good Children, Good Heredity, Good Reputation And The Like.

Trust Is A Social Good To Be Protected Just As Much As The Air We Breathe Or The Water We Drink. When It Is Damaged, The Community As A Whole Suffers; And When It Is Destroyed, Societies Falter And Collapse