Integrity
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Cox, D., La Caze, M. & Levine, M. (2005). Integrity. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition). Stanford: Stanford University. Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/integrity/.
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© Copyright Damian Cox, Marguerite La Caze & Michael Levine, 2008
Abstract
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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.
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Damian Cox, Marguerite La Caze, and Michael Levine. "Integrity" The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Fall 2008 ed). Ed. E. N. Zalta. Stanford, California: Stanford University, 2008.
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