Integrity and Conscience: Nomos XL

by Ian Shapiro (Editor), Robert Adams (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814739617
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1998
Series:	NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy , #11
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	993,912
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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).
Robert Adams is Professor of Philosophy, both at Yale University.

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Contributors	xi
1.	Introduction	1
Part I	Conceptual Issues
2.	Four Conceptions of Conscience	13
3.	Jiminy Cricket: A Commentary on Professor Hill's Four Conceptions of Conscience	53
4.	Conscience and Moral Psychology: Reflections on Thomas Hill's "Four Conceptions of Conscience"	69
5.	Socratic Integrity	77
Part II	Integrity, Conscience, and Professionalism
6.	Integrity, Conscience, and Science	115
7.	Trust in Science and in Scientists: A Response to Kane	139
8.	Moral Opportunism: A Case Study	154
Part III	Integrity and Conscience in the Law
9.	Conscience and the Law: Liberal and Democratic Approaches	187
10.	The Inherent Deceptiveness of Constitutional Discourse: A Diagnosis and Prescription	218
11.	Constitutional Discourse and the Deceptive Attractiveness of Sharp Dichotomies	255
12.	Pragmatism, Honesty, and Integrity	270
13.	The Asymmetricality of Constitutional Discourse	300
14.	Conscience, Constitutionalism, and Consensus: A Comment on Constitutional Stupidities and Evils	316
	Index	335

Editorial Reviews

Many of the chapters in this volume began life at the December 1995 meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, held in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association in New York. Eleven essays address: conceptual issues (primarily, point- counterpoint to Thomas Hill's four conceptions of conscience); integrity, conscience, and professionalism (as related to trust in science, and moral opportunism); and integrity and conscience in the law (e.g. the inherent deceptiveness of constitutional discourse). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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