ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a typology of conceptions of integrity. It describes several ideas that contribute to the development of a pragmatist model: integrity as wholeness, virtue as memory, and the problem of power. The chapter introduces the moderate pessimism of Reinhold Niebuhr as a corrective to excessive optimism about any model of social change and turns to John Dewey for an elaboration of philosophical pragmatism. It also proposes social bargains as a form of problem solving deriving from pragmatist integrity. The chapter then explores several ideas that will ultimately align with a pragmatist perspective: wholeness, virtue as memory, and resistance to concentrated power. Several scholars have suggested that philosophical pragmatism would be an appropriate framework for business ethics. Pragmatist integrity requires an approach to the workplace that deemphasizes organizational boundaries, does not treat management or labor as factors of production or black boxes but considers a complex of workplace communities.
