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Integrity
by Stephen L. Carter, 1996, Harper Collins: NY
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Why do we care more about winning than about playing by the rules?
Integrity - all of us are in favor of it, but nobody seems to know how to make sure that we get it. From presidential candidates to crusading journalists to the lords of collegiate sports, everybody promises to deliver integrity, yet all too often, the promises go unfulfilled.
Stephen Carter examines why the virtue of integrity holds such sway over the American political imagination. By weaving together insights from philosophy, theology, history and law, along with examples drawn from current events and a dose of personal experience, Carter offers a vision of integrity that has implications for everything from marriage and politics to professional football. He discusses the difficulties involved in trying to legislate integrity as well as the possibilities for teaching it.
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http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060928077 |
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Public Integrity(Book Review)
American Political Science Review
March, 2001 Author/s: Andrew Stark
Public Integrity. by J. Patrick Dobel. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 260p.
Integrity is a shifty, furtive concept. Philosophers have had a hard time defining the idea because it raises a couple of recurrent perplexities. First, consider former Speaker Jim Wright's remark that "integrity is ... the state or quality of being complete, undivided, [and] unbroken," or the Oxford English Dictionary connotation of an "unbroken state" of "material wholeness." The problem is that integrity, so understood, seems to leave no room for the possibility of individuals whose lives display any kind of self-critical revision, changes in course, or discontinuities over historical time, or for those who compartmentalize, differentiate, and assume conflicting roles across social space; in other words, for all of us. We need, as Amelie Rorty has written ("Integrity: Political, not Psychological," in Alan Montefiore and David Vines, eds., Integrity in the Public and Private Domains, 1999), a far better account as to how and where "integration and integrity ... coincide".
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Integrity and NPM
by Emile W. Kolthoff and Leo Huberts
Public Administration has adopted a business-like approach to government.
Output budgeting, privatization, competition and commercialization are receiving more attention than the exclusive character of certain public tasks. This business-like approach to government can be compared to that of a hybrid organization with, according to some authors, an increased risk of integrity violations.
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Anachronism of the Moral Sentiments? Integrity, Post-Modernism and Justice
James Boyle
This is an essay about the relationship between post-modernism and justice. My topic is the apparent disjunction between post-modernists' moral and political intuitions on the one hand and their philosophical views and cultural leanings on the other. Crudely put, the essay asks what we can learn from the fact that someone who rejects the notion of "integrity" as either a psychological, moral or textual quality, nevertheless condemns the Dean or the Senator for having "no integrity," admires the display of principled consistency in public life or the interpretation of the Constitution, and would characterise the difference between, say, Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton, as the difference between a principled ascetic who would endure jail or death for his beliefs and a pack of cut-out caricatures, reshuffled at every shift in public opinion, held together only by an expensive suit and a set of selfish appetites.
http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/pomo.htm |
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Towards a Dialectical Ethics beyond Objectivism and Relativism
Daniel Vokey, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education of the
University of Toronto
THE ETHICS OF INTEGRITY. Mason's response to the problems attendant
upon relativism is to posit the ethics of integrity, "constituted
by respect for the dignity of our and each other's being, and by taking
responsibility for the consequences of moral choices." Mason's main
objection to relativism is that it leads to social, interpersonal,
and personal consequences that are morally unacceptable. He cites
an impressive list of theorists who are also unwilling to accept the
human costs of relativism and who also reassert norms of truth and
justice. Of course, this reluctance to accept its implications does
not justify the conclusion that relativism is false, but it does warrant
a second look at its arguments. Concerning those arguments, Mason's
other objection to relativism is that it does not follow simply from
the fact of persistent disagreement. He argues that truth cannot be
reduced to warranted assertability: "the ontological cannot be reduced
to the epistemological."
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/97_docs/vokey.html |
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The Bottom Line is Integrity
Stuart Gilman - 2002 August
Advances the view that while rules and regulations may well deter corruption in the short term, the way to affect change in the long term is to concentrate on instilling integrity. Offers a few practical suggestions on promoting ethical behavior.
http://www.ethics.org/resources/article_detail.cfm?ID=728 |
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Integrity
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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. The person 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.
Do moral theories such as utilitarianism allow room for people to
live with integrity?
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/integrity/#5 |
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