It's a word without glamour. It doesn't catch the eye or tug the heart. A boring dreary chore. Yet is it, the most important word of all? Can nothing, from family ties to global warming, function, without it? What's your "most important word in the dictionary"?
2006-10-17 10:27:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
A psychologist by the name of Kohlberg identified "maintence" or "survival" as the fourth highest sense of morality a human being can have. His work was in the field of morality as a science.
To answer your question, no - "Maintence" is not the most important word in the dictionary.
The examples you mention prove that maintence cannot be the most important word.
Why would someone want to maintain family ties or the fight against global warming?
The answer to this question is that family ties and a clean environment are "good."
The examples you give presuppose that they are in themselves "good."
Would you maintain something that is bad? Should crime be maintained? Should poverty be maintained? Should personal vice be maintained? In short, no.
The most important word is then "good." If one is to figure out what is truly good, then he or she can learn to achieve and maintain that good.
Maintence is only important if you have already determined what is good and what is not.
2006-10-17 10:43:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not maintenance, it's sustenance. The most important word in the dictionary is ME! (just kidding).
2006-10-17 10:37:11 · answer #2 · answered by ravin_lunatic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Love" would have to be pretty much up there.
I'd prefer love to maintenance
2006-10-17 10:30:52 · answer #3 · answered by SteveT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BALANCE
2006-10-17 10:34:39 · answer #4 · answered by melas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God
2006-10-17 10:33:49 · answer #5 · answered by proscunio 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋