Integrity and Conscience

by Shapiro, Ian; Adams, Robert Merrihew

• ISBN13: 9780814780978
• ISBN10: 0814780970
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

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

Preface	ix	(2)
Contributors	xi
1. Introduction	1	(12)
IAN SHAPIRO
ROBERT ADAMS
PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES	13	(102)
2. Four Conceptions of Conscience	13	(40)
THOMAS E. HILL JR.
3. Jiminy Cricket: A Commentary on Professor Hill's Four Conceptions of Conscience	53	(16)
NOMI MAYA STOLZENBERG
4. Conscience and Moral Psychology: Reflections on Thomas Hill's "Four Conceptions of Conscience"	69	(8)
ELIZABETH KISS
5. Socratic Integrity	77	(38)
GEORGE KATEB
PART II: INTEGRITY, CONSCIENCE, AND PROFESSIONALISM	115	(72)
6. Integrity, Conscience, and Science	115	(24)
JOHN KANE
7. Trust in Science and in Scientists: A Response to Kane	139	(15)
KAREN JONES
8. Moral Opportunism: A Case Study	154	(33)
KENNETH I. WINSTON
PART III: INTEGRITY AND CONSCIENCE IN THE LAW	187	(148)
9. Conscience and the Law: Liberal and Democratic Approaches	187	(31)
DAVID DYZENHAUS
10. The Inherent Deceptiveness of Constitutional Discourse: A Diagnosis and Prescription	218	(37)
ROGERS M. SMITH
11. Constitutional Discourse and the Deceptive Attractiveness of Sharp Dichotomies	255	(15)
KENT GREENAWALT
12. Pragmatism, Honesty, and Integrity	270	(30)
CATHARINE PIERCE WELLS
13. The Asymmetricality of Constitutional Discourse	300	(16)
MICHAEL W. McCONNELL
14. Conscience, Constitutionalism, and Consensus: A Comment on Constitutional Stupidities and Evils	316	(19)
MARK A. GRABER
Index	335