ABSTRACT
Three accounts of integrity have been central to contemporary philosophical discussion: the 'integrated-self', the 'identity', and the 'clean-hands' views. Calhoun's criticism of the 'clean-hands' view is particularly convincing. One of the most popular philosophical understandings of integrity is that it signifies integration or the unity of the self. As an account of integrity, the view that the person of integrity is a whole integrated self that the successful integration of self is both necessary and sufficient for integrity, is oversimplified and mistaken. The integrated-self picture of integrity requires a person to resolve conflicts among their desires by endorsing some of them. The principal difficulties with the identity account of integrity are similar to those of the integrated-self account. One might try to preserve the basic idea that integrity is connected to identity and fidelity to self by shifting to a deliberative notion of identity.
