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Judgement, decision, and integrity

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posted on 2001-05-01, 00:00 authored by Stan Van HooftStan Van Hooft
Although Aristotle did not mention it, integrity can be understood in an Aristotelian framework. Seeing it in these terms will show that it is an executive virtue which concerns the existential well being of an agent. This analysis is not offered as an exegesis of Aristotle's text, but as an attempt to use an Aristotelian framework to understand a virtue deemed important today. This account will have the benefit of solving some problems relating to motivational internalism and, as such, will contribute to that recent current of thought which has been highlighting the importance of virtue thinking in moral theory. I will distinguish moral judgement from decision and show that moral judgement is dependent upon virtue more strongly than it is upon impartial rationality. I will suggest that integrity is the virtue to which moral judgement gives expression and is the virtue which links judgement to decision so as to overcome akrasia.

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Journal

Philosophical Explorations: an international journal for the philosophy of mind and action

Volume

4

Pagination

135-149

Location

Assen, Netherlands

ISSN

1386-9795

eISSN

1741-5918

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

2

Publisher

Van Gorcum

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