ABSTRACT
Where the moral aspect of integrity is focused upon, that integrity is worth striving for seems uncontroversial. There are aspects of integrity having to do with the unity of a self, where this may be explained both in terms of an integrated self and fidelity to core projects and commitments. The steadfast maintenance of certain kinds of commitment is an important means of achieving integrity, just as integrity is necessary to the maintenance of important commitments. Societies are not equally conducive to personal integrity, including emotional integrity. The person of integrity 'cannot wholly ignore others', 'treat herself as an isolated being' or 'ignore the evidence of her impact on others'. If people without integrity do indeed cooperate, compromise, and remain silent when they ought not, the force of 'ought not' cannot be, 'the wrong thing as determined by some moral theory'.
