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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, Damian Cox, Marguerite La Caze, Michael Levine
Integrity, Damian Cox, Marguerite La Caze, Michael Levine
Damian Cox
Extract:
Integrity is one of the most important and oft-cited of virtue terms. It is also perhaps the most puzzling. For example, while it is sometimes used virtually synonymously with ‘moral,’ we also at times distinguish acting morally from acting with integrity. Persons of integrity may in fact act immorally—though they would usually not know they are acting immorally. Thus one may acknowledge a person to have integrity even though that person may hold importantly mistaken moral views.
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 …
Should We Strive For Integrity?, Damian Cox, Marguerite La Caze, Michael Levine
Should We Strive For Integrity?, Damian Cox, Marguerite La Caze, Michael Levine
Damian Cox
Even by people whose moral views diverge widely, integrity is commonly thought of as something worthwhile, a valuable personal characteristic. It is, consequently, something we commonly suppose worth striving to cultivate both in ourselves and in those under our care. Nancy Schauber (1996) offers a provocative challenge to this conventional wisdom - arguing (in all seriousness) that integrity is either something we possess simply in virtue of being persons or else it is not something worth having. An analysis of her truncated accounts of integrity and commitment will show why her argument fails. That is does fail is a victory …