Portraits of integrity : 26 case studies from history, literature and philosophy /
edited by Charlotte Alston, Amber D. Carpenter and Rachael Wiseman.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource (xv, 293 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Plato's Socrates: the oddness of the integrated soul / Amber D. Carpenter -- Boethius: integrity as attunement to reality / Matthew Maguire -- Rama: the imperfections of the perfect man in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa / Emily T. Hudson -- Antigone: staging integrity through sorority / Valentina Moro -- Job: 'And still he holdeth fast his integrity' / Katharine J. Dell -- Ella Baker: leading with integrity in the service of a cause / Robin Zheng -- 'Albert': transformational agency and integrity in the workplace / Lisa Herzog -- Huang Zongxi: making it safe not to be servile / Sandra Leonie Field -- Lambert Strether: 'What plays you least false' in a life with others / Danielle Petherbridge -- Confucius' village worthies: Hypocrites as thieves of virtue / Winnie Sung -- G.E.M. Anscombe: the false hypocrisy of the ideal standard / Rachael Wiseman -- Mohandas Gandhi: 'My life is its own message' / Stefan Rossbach -- Tolstoy and the Tolstoyans: facing life as a whole / Charlotte Alston -- Simone Weil: against being true to yourself / D.K. Levy -- Guan Yu: 'Righeousness that is not righteousness' in the Romance of the three kingdoms / Bryan W. Van Norden -- Gerrard Winstanley: radicalism and the struggle for integrity during the English Revolution / David Loewenstein -- Amadou Bamba: integrity and the struggle for spiritual cultivation / Alexus McLeod -- Abai Kunanbayev: integrity and the law in nineteenth-century Kazakh society / Tenlik Dalayeva -- Amrita Sher-Gil: identity and integrity as a mixed-race woman artist in colonial India / Nalini Bhushan -- Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann and George Waitz: two models of scholarly integrity / Herman Paul -- Hannah Arendt: integrity, truth and the political realm / Alexander Beaumont -- Anasi the Spider: individual trickery and communal integrity / Stephen L. Bishop -- The Cookes and the Kayes: assertions of virtue among the 'middling sort' in post-Reformation England / Robert Tittler -- Titus Pomponius Atticus: writing the life of an uncommonly honourable Roman / Linda McGuire -- Hneryk Sienkiewicz's Letters from America: creating a speaker with integrity / Anja Burghardt -- Virginia Woolf: 'Writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching': integrity and the woman writer in A room of one's own / Lorraine Sim.
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"Portraits of Integrity depicts more than 20 historical, fictional and contemporary figures whose character or life raises questions about what integrity is and how it is perceived. Integrity might be culturally bound, but this diverse set of portraits demonstrates that it is not the special preserve of any one culture. Portraits of Socrates, Mencius, Rama and Job, alongside the aspirational 16th-century couple John and Dorothy Kaye, civil rights activist Ella Baker and an anonymous banker, highlight the persisting ? sometimes conflicting ? features of a life lived with integrity. An introduction identifies and discusses the key questions and themes raised by the case studies, encouraging the reader to determine for themselves the weight and significance of the recurring topics integrity brings up - truth, awkwardness, goodness, and charisma. For anyone looking to learn more about this elusive virtue, Portraits of Integrity is an essential collection. It uncovers the manifold aspects of integrity, illustrates the various possibilities for its expression in a life and asks whether living a life of integrity means living a life of isolation and hardship, or if it is possible to live with integrity without jeopardising all else."--
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9781350040410
10.5040/9781350040410 doi
Integrity--Case studies. Ethics & moral philosophy