Integrity and Conscience
Nomos XL
Published on 1. January 2012
336 pages
978-0-8147-3961-7 (ISBN)
Description
Can individuals believe that they are acting with integrity, yet in disobedience to the dictates of their conscience? Can they retain fidelity to their conscience while ignoring a sense of what integrity requires? Integrity and conscience are often thought to be closely related, perhaps even different aspects of a single impulse. This timely book supports a different and more complicated view. Acting with integrity and obeying one's conscience might be mutually reinforcing in some settings, but in others they can live in varying degrees of mutual tension. Bringing together prominent scholars of legal theory and political philosophy, the volume addresses both classic ruminations on integrity and conscience by Plato, Hume, and Kant as well as more contemporary examinations of professional ethics and the complex relations among politics, law and personal morality.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,94 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8147-3961-7 (9780814739617)
DOI
8574/nyu/9780814739617.001.0001
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04/1998
New York University Press
€127.76
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Persons
Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. He is the editor or author of numerous books, most recently Political Contingency (NYU Press) and Rethinking Political Institutions (NYU Press). Robert Adams is Professor of Philosophy, both at Yale University.
