integrity

Agreement in one's statements, values, intentions, and actions.

a.k.a. unity, harmony

“To have integrity is to refuse to be, to have educated oneself so that one is no longer able to be, one kind of person in one social context, while quite another in other contexts. It is to have set inflexible limits to one’s adaptability to the roles that one may be called upon to play.” —Alasdair MacIntyre

Complementary virtues

Contrasting vices

  • hypocrisy
  • inconsistency
  • being “two-faced”

Virtues possibly in tension

How to acquire or strengthen it

TBD

Notes and links

Mentioned elsewhere

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Inspirational quotes

  • “[The nobler type of man] first practices what he preaches and afterwards preaches according to his practice.” (Analects of Confucius, II.XIII)
  • “Integrity is an ambiguous concept, so is sincerity. What is so called can be a form of pride or self-assertion.” —Iris Murdoch Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals p. 325