Integrity and the fragile self
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Integrity and the fragile self
Ashgate, c2003
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-161) and index
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Description
What does it take to be a person of integrity? Could those who commit morally horrendous acts be persons of integrity? Is personal integrity compatible with the kinds of ambivalence and self-doubt characteristic of fragile selves and ordinary lives? This text examines the centrality of integrity in relation to a variety of philosophical and psychological concerns that impinge upon the ethical life. Relating integrity to many standard issues in philosophical and moral psychology - such as self-deception, weakness of will, hypocrisy and relationships - the authors present a comprehensive and accessible study of integrity and its types. Drawing on contemporary work in moral and philosophical psychology, ethics, theories of the self and feminist thought, this book develops an account of integrity as a fundamental virtue - as something that is central to all our lives.
Table of Contents
- Views of integrity: integrated-self
- identity
- clean-hands. Integrity as a virtue: should we strive for integrity?
- integrity and commitment
- emotional integrity
- integrity and morality
- integrity and moral limits
- the virtue of integrity. Integrity and utilitarian moral theory: Williams against the utilitarian
- the argument from integrity
- what is the problem with utilitarianism?
- is utilitarianism really incompatible with integrity?. Types of integrity: professional integrity
- political integrity
- what defeats political integrity?
- intellectual integrity
- artistic integrity
- artistic integrity and moral integrity
- the many roles of integrity. Striving for integrity: is the pursuit of integrity self-indulgent?
- too much integrity?
- can political and social structures undermine integrity?.
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