Posted by: mitchellburt | April 9, 2008

Individual Task 3 – Ethical principles

1.) My understanding of the the word moral integerity is an adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.

2.) Because he has a strong, noticebal moral character amungst him. He smuggled in bread and wine so that the people of Auschwitz could continue doing mass in God’s name. He was always helping to those her were less fortunate and much poorer than himself. He tried his best to gain rights for himself and the people around him. Also he tried to get us much food and fluids as possible to help those starving people.

Another reason why Kolbe is regarded as a Christian of exemplary moral integrity is because there was man who escaped from a jail in Auschwitz. The men in the same bunker as him were selected to die. All the 10 men were made to starve to death and go without and sustainance for the rest of their lives. One of the men from that 10 so badly effected by the starvation that Kolbe begged the Captain at that time to take his place. Maximillian Kolbe told the Captain that he was a Catholic Priest and he wishes to die for that man. After some time the request was granted that wish. He then swapped places with that man. They were prepared to die with prayers, songs and examples of Christs passion.

Maximillian didnt die that easy he stayed alive for a long and trecherous 2 weeks. There was only four left out of the ten and Maximillian was apart of that group. Due to the amount of time Kolbe was alive for the guards who were guarding could scarcely bare the saints composure, so they injected Maximillian him with drug that speeds up his death.

The main stand out of his actions is that he gave up his life for someone he wasn’t related to and didn’t even know.

3.) He gave up his life for a man he didnt even know. The man wasn’t related to him and he had never met Maximillian. He believed that to be a strong Catholic Priest, a role model and saviour to those who were starving and dying he had a role to fulfil by risking his life for a prisoner in need of help, food and water.

4.)I believe that Maximillian Kolbe made the right decision. By him doing what he did to save the life of man who was staving for food and desperately needed water or some sort of fluids to keep him from dying, he was noticed by all of the people in Auschwitz and after some time the rest of the country for his actions by risking his life and taking the place of a prisoner from one of Auschwitz prison.

Thanks to Kolbe’s bravery and his strong and very powerful courage a life of a man who hardly anyone new was saved.

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