What does it take to be a person of integrity? Could those who commit morally horrendous acts be persons of integrity? Is personal integrity compatible with the kinds of ambivalence and self-doubt characteristic of fragile selves and ordinary lives? This text examines the centrality of integrity in relation to a variety of philosophical and psychological concerns that impinge upon the ethical life. Relating integrity to many standard issues in philosophical and moral psychology - such as self-deception, weakness of will, hypocrisy and relationships - the authors present a comprehensive and accessible study of integrity and its types. Drawing on contemporary work in moral and philosophical psychology, ethics, theories of the self and feminist thought, this book develops an account of integrity as a fundamental virtue - as something that is central to all our lives.

Integrity and the Fragile Self

Politics & Social Sciences

Cox, Damian

Levine, Michael P.

LA Caze, Marguerite

Philosophy

Ashgate Pub Ltd

The notion of the philosophical imaginary developed by Michéle Le Doeuff refers to the capacity to imagine as well as to the stock of images philosophers employ. Making use of this notion, Marguerite La Caze explores the idea of the imaginary of analytic philosophy. Noting the marked tendency of analytic philosophy to be unselfconscious about the use of figurative language and the levels at which it works, La Caze shows how analytic images can work to define the parameters of debates and exclude differing approaches, including feminist ones.
La Caze focuses on five influential types of images in five central areas of contemporary analytic philosophy: analogies and how they are used in the abortion debates; thought experiments in personal identity; the myth of the social contract; Thomas Nagel's use of visual and spatial metaphors in epistemology; and Kendall Walton's use of children's games as a foundational model in aesthetics.
The author shows how the image promotes assumptions and conceals tensions in philosophical works, how the image persuades, and how it limits debate and excludes ideas. In providing an analysis of and reflection on the nature of the analytic imaginary, La Caze suggests that a more open-ended and reflexive approach can result in richer, more fruitful, philosophical work.

The Analytic Imaginary

Cornell University Press

<div> A philosophical exploration of how modern global cinema represents everyday means of resisting authoritarianism and totalitarianism Václav Havel's concept of "living within the truth" in an authoritarian regime frames Marguerite La Caze's readings of international cinema, highlighting forms of resistance in which seemingly pre- or nonpolitical aspects of life--such as professional labor, exile, and truth telling--can be recognized as political when seen against a backdrop of general acquiescence. La Caze's case studies cross genres, historical eras, and national contexts: the apartheid regime in South Africa, in A Dry White Season; post-Suharto Indonesia, in The Look of Silence; 1980s East Germany, in Barbara; the Chilean military dictatorship, in No; contemporary Iran, in A Separation; and current-day Saudi Arabia, in Wadjda. This book explores the films' use of image, sound, narrative, and character in dialogue with the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Aimé Cesaire, Hannah Arendt, Sara Ahmed, and W. E. B. Du Bois to reveal how cinema depicts ordinary people enacting their own philosophies of defiance. </div>

Film and Everyday Resistance (Superimpositions)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Northwestern University Press

Integrity and the Fragile Self (Routledge Revivals)

P. Levine, Michael

Religion & Spirituality

Routledge

This title was first published in 2003. What does it take to be a person of integrity? Could those who commit morally horrendous acts be persons of integrity? Is personal integrity compatible with the kinds of ambivalence and self-doubt characteristic of fragile selves and ordinary lives? This text examines the centrality of integrity in relation to a variety of philosophical and psychological concerns that impinge upon the ethical life.

Self-Help

Happiness

Wonder and Generosity: Their Role in Ethics and Politics

A compelling  understanding of equality and difference in public life.Wonder  and Generosity provides a fresh account of how the passions of wonder—based  on accepting others’ differences—and generosity—based on self-respect and  mutual respect—can supplement each other to establish an ethics and politics of  respect for sexual and cultural differences. Drawing  on the work of both historical and contemporary thinkers, such as Descartes,  Kant, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Derrida, Marguerite La Caze applies her  theoretical framework to a range of contemporary political challenges,  including asylum-seeker policies, justice for indigenous and other oppressed  groups, debates over official apologies, gender equality, and responses to  radical evil. La Caze’s book contributes to understanding the  relationship between equality and difference in public life, the extent to  which we must regard others as similar in the name of equality, and the extent  to which we must acknowledge significant differences.“This is a strong contribution to  several fields and to the intersection between them. La Caze provides a  compelling account of wonder and generosity as important categories for the  development of an ethics and politics of difference.” — Fanny Söderbäck, coeditor of Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in  Feminist Thought and Practice.

State University of New York Press

Ethical Restoration after Communal Violence: The Grieving and the Unrepentant

Lexington Books

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