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Damned Lying Politicians: Integrity And Truth In Politics, Damian Cox, Michael Levine
Damned Lying Politicians: Integrity And Truth In Politics, Damian Cox, Michael Levine
Damian Cox
Professional roles are often thought to bring role-specific permissions and obligation, which may allow or require role-occupants to do things they would not be permitted or required to do outside their roles, and which as individuals they would rather not do. This feature of professional roles appears to bring them into conflict both with ‘ordinary’ or non-role morality, and with personal integrity which is often thought to demand some form of personal endorsement of one’s conduct. How are we to reconcile the demands of roles with ordinary morality and with personal integrity? This collection draws together a set of papers …
Integrity And Politics, Damian Cox
Integrity And Politics, Damian Cox
Damian Cox
Extract:
Integrity is the virtue par excellence of the professional politician. It is the virtue a politician is apt to hold most precious; a virtue they are likely to defend above all others. To cast doubt upon the courage, foresight, knowledge, wisdom, compassion or good-sense of a contemporary politician is one thing, to cast doubt upon their integrity is quite another. Indeed, it seems that no professional politician working in a contemporary liberal democracy can afford to allow a credible slur on their integrity to go unanswered.
The concept of integrity is obviously central to our conception of a properly …