ABSTRACT
To act with integrity is to act within the bounds of a reasonable conception of moral action. The utilitarian is likely to think of integrity as playing a role in moral deliberation, but only as one source of utility among others. The argument from integrity rests on a link between genuinely committing oneself to personal projects and living with integrity. One natural way of modifying utilitarianism in response to the argument from integrity is to explicitly introduce the space for a moral agent to pursue private projects. The integrity of a utilitarian is under several attacks: from a paucity of commitment, a utilitarian will find themselves without the means of pursuing a life of integrity. The idea that a utilitarian would possess integrity simply by virtue of their steadfast maintenance of utilitarian ideals presupposes an inadequate conception of integrity.
