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    It is not the case that Integrity requires loyalty to one's rational values and convictions, especially under social pressure.

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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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    • 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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