Bernard Williams argued that integrity requires that an agent's actions flow from their own commitments; chemically induced belief severs the causal link between self and doxastic state.
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(Presented as a necessary condition for being an agent at all)
The coherent unity of agency achieved through commitment to morality and universal principles of self-government.
agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
doxastic state(as used in epistemology)
A mental condition involving what you believe; basically, what's going on in your mind when you hold a belief.