Integrity, personal and political
Journal article
Nili, Shmuel. (2018). Integrity, personal and political. The Journal of Politics. 80(2), pp. 428 - 441. https://doi.org/10.1086/694786
Authors | Nili, Shmuel |
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Abstract | Social discourse about morality often features appeals to identity-grounding commitments. Individuals who wish to justify their conduct to others frequently portray certain actions they pursue as stemming from commitments that are central to their identity and portray actions they reject as incompatible with their identity. Such familiar appeals to identity-grounding commitments are frequently put in terms of “integrity.” Yet many moral philosophers have been skeptical of the idea that an agent’s integrity can have independent normative significance. My main aim in this essay is to respond to such skepticism from the perspective of political philosophy. I argue that polities, at least of a liberal-democratic kind, can have their own normatively significant integrity. More specifically—and more dramatically—I contend that it is actually easier to defend the normative significance of this political integrity than it is to defend the normative significance of individual integrity. |
Year | 2018 |
Journal | The Journal of Politics |
Journal citation | 80 (2), pp. 428 - 441 |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
ISSN | 0022-3816 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1086/694786 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85047664841 |
Page range | 428 - 441 |
Research Group | Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
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