| Integrity and Conscience: Nomos XL Contributor(s): Shapiro, Ian (Editor), Adams, Robert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0814780970 ISBN-13: 9780814780978 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | Political - Political Science |
| Dewey: 170 |
| LCCN: 97033867 |
| Series: Nomos - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.78" W x 8.42" (1.16 lbs) 351 pages |
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| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shapiro, Ian: - 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).Adams, Robert: - Robert Adams is Professor of Philosophy, both at Yale University. |