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    Integrity requires loyalty to one's rational values and c... — Carmelics
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    Integrity requires loyalty to one's rational values and convictions, especially under social pressure.

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    • 1.Integrity is the recognition of the fact that one cannot fake one's own consciousness.
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    • 2.This recognition is expressed in loyalty to one's rational values and convictions in the face of social pressures to surrender them.
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    • 1.Bernard Williams argues integrity requires fidelity to one's 'ground projects,' which need not be rational in Rand's objectivist sense.
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    • 2.A commitment grounded in passion, cultural identity, or aesthetic sensibility can constitute genuine integrity without rational justification.
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    • 3.Rand's rationalist criterion for integrity thus excludes legitimate forms of self-constituting commitment recognized across virtue traditions.
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    • 1.Hegel and communitarian thinkers like MacIntyre argue the self is socially constituted, making 'social pressure' partly constitutive of identity itself.
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    • 2.If rational values are shaped through social practices and traditions, resisting social pressure can undermine rather than preserve authentic selfhood.
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    is the basic virtue of which the other virtues are aspects or derivatives. The virtues are thus united or reciprocal. Each virtue is defined partly in terms of a recognition of, and appropriate responsiveness to, some important fact or facts, a recognition and responsiveness understood by the agent to be indispensable for gaining, maintaining, or expressing her ultimate value. For example, integrity is “the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness” (1957 [1992]: 936), a re
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