Does integrity require moral goodness?

Ratio

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 234-251

  Graham, Jody L ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9329.00160     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. See Bernard Williams, 'Persons, Character and Morality' and 'Moral Luck' in Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers 1973-1980 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 1-19 and pp. 20-39
2. Gabriel Taylor, Pride, Shame and Guilt: Emotions of Self assessment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 108-141
3. Lynn McFall, 'Integrity' in Ethics and Personality: Essays in Moral Psychology, ed. John Deigh (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1992), pp. 79-94
4. Cheshire Calhoun, 'Standing for Something' The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XCII, No. 5, May 1995, pp. 235-261
5. Mark S. Halfon, Integrity: A Philosophical Inquiry (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989)
6. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, 2nd edition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972), p 1
7. See Williams, 'Person, Character and Morality' op. cit
8. Taylor, op. cit. chapter 5
9. and McFall, 'Integrity' op. cit
10. See also Halfon, op. cit. p. 56
11. Taylor's view, like Halfon's, is not undermined by the preceding arguments but it, like Halfon's, should be rejected for the reasons I offer later in the paper
12. Allan Brandt, 'Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study' Hastings Center Report, December 1978, pp. 21-29
13. I am grateful to Carolyn McLeod for getting me to think carefully about the relationship between trust and integrity. McLeod and I agree about the importance that trust plays in an account of integrity, but disagree about the role it plays. Very roughly: I appeal to the trustworthiness of the individual where she appeals to our willingness to trust him. See Carolyn McLeod, 'Prototypical Features of Trust Relations: What we Trust in Others', in Self-Trust (unpublished manuscript)
14. See Annette Baier's 'Trust and Antitrust' in Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), pp. 95-129
15. Halfon, op. cit. p. 56
16. Taylor, op. cit. p. 128
17. Margaret Urban Walker, in her insightful defense of an ethics of responsibility, argues that integrity doesn't require reference to the character of one's life but is about 'cleaning up messes', 'local accountability', and 'resilient dependability'. While she is right that integrity is about accountability, it also depends on the character of one's life for it is only by referring to the character of one's life that one can account for the difference between someone who acts with integrity and someone who acts in the way that those with integrity normally act. See Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (New York: Routledge, 1998), chapter 5