Integrity and conscience / / edited by Ian Shapiro and Robert Adams.

• Superior document: Nomos ; 40
• TeilnehmendeR: Shapiro, Ian,; Adams, Robert Merrihew,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : New York University Press,, [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Nomos ; 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Ian Shapiro and Robert Adams -- Four conceptions of conscience / Thomas E. Hill Jr. -- Jiminy Cricket: a commentary on Professor Hill's Four conceptions of conscience / Nomi Maya Stolzenberg -- Conscience and moral psychology: reflections on Thomas Hill's Four conceptions of conscience / Elizabeth Kiss -- Socratic integrity / George Kateb -- Integrity, conscience, and science / John Kane -- Trust in science and in scientists: a response to Kane / Karen Jones -- Moral opportunism: a case study / Kenneth I. Winston -- Conscience and the law: liberal and democratic approaches / David Dyzenhaus -- The inherent deceptiveness of constitutional discourse: a diagnosis and prescription / Rogers M. Smith -- Constitutional discourse and the deceptive attractiveness of sharp dichotomies / Kent Greenawalt -- Pragmatism, honesty, and integrity / Catharine Pierce Wells -- The asymmetricality of constitutional discourse / Michael W. McConnell -- Conscience, constitutionalism, and consensus: a comment on constitutional stupidities and evils / Mark A. Graber.