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almafu_9960169919302883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780814739617
Series Statement:
NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy ; 11
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Preface --
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Contributors --
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1. Introduction --
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PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES --
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2. Four Conceptions of Conscience --
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3. Jiminy Cricket: A Commentary on Professor Hill's Four Conceptions of Conscience --
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4. Conscience and Moral Psychology: Reflections on Thomas Hill's "Four Conceptions of Conscience" --
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5. Socratic Integrity --
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PART II: INTEGRITY, CONSCIENCE, AND PROFESSIONALISM --
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6. Integrity, Conscience, and Science --
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7. Trust in Science and in Scientists: A Response to Kane --
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8. Moral Opportunism: A Case Study --
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PART III: INTEGRITY AND CONSCIENCE IN THE LAW --
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9. Conscience and the Law: Liberal and Democratic Approaches --
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10. The Inherent Deceptiveness of Constitutional Discourse: A Diagnosis and Prescription --
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11. Constitutional Discourse and the Deceptive Attractiveness of Sharp Dichotomies --
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12. Pragmatism, Honesty, and Integrity --
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13. The Asymmetricality of Constitutional Discourse --
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14. Conscience, Constitutionalism, and Consensus: A Comment on Constitutional Stupidities and Evils --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9780814739617
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739617
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739617
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