Category Archives: Integrity & Protest

Integrity can drive individuals to challenge existing structures and practices in various ways – campaigning against them, separating from them, or exemplifying alternative lifestyles. This section explores how personal integrity has compelled non-conformists, utopians, activists and reformers to act only according to their conscience. Read more »

“Gandhi is like the Occupy Movement”

Posted on 22 May 2015 by Rachael Wiseman

Interview with Norman Finkelstein on Democracy Now drawing some lessons for the contemporary left and for Palestinians in the occupied territories from the lessons of Gandhian non-violence. Gandhi is the subject of today’s Portraits of Integrity meeting.

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CFP: Philosophical Activism Conference

Posted on 28 April 2014 by Rachael Wiseman

This is not an Integrity Project event, but may well be of interest. Philosophical Activism, 30-31 October 2014, Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS), Durham University, Durham (UK) Philosophy as an academic field has become increasingly interested in … Continue reading →

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Portraits of Integrity — update

Posted on 30 March 2014 by Rachael Wiseman

Thanks to everyone who attended the Portraits of Integrity meeting on Tolstoy last Friday. Notes from the discussion will be posted here shortly. At our next meeting, on April 28th, we’ll be looking at Socrates and asking whether he deserves … Continue reading →

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Appeals to Integrity as Manipulation

Posted on 15 March 2014 by The Integrity Project

“We should seek maximum publicity and maximum debunking…by making as much publicity as possible; the book will sell… and by showing that the publishers jumped early…we can question the book’s authority. We will choose five inaccuracies in the book and … Continue reading →

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Readings available for Tolstoy Working Group

Posted on 15 March 2014 by Rachael Wiseman

The readings for the second meeting of the working group are now available here. Just click on the hyperlinks in the reading list.

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Integrity in the News: “This is the way democracies work”

Posted on 16 February 2014 by Rachael Wiseman

Contributed by K. Armstrong Here’s an illuminating exchange on Democracy Now! between Daniel Ellsberg, the whistle-blower behind the 1971 leak of the Pentagon Papers, and Stewart Baker, former National Security Agency lawyer. The full debate is well worth watching. [At … Continue reading →

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Activism and Integrity: Audio recordings now available

Posted on 9 February 2014 by Rachael Wiseman

Audio recordings are now available for the Activism and Integrity workshop.

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Tolstoy and the philosophy of non-resistance

Posted on 26 January 2014 by Charlotte Alston

This talk was presented at the Activism and Integrity workshop, December 2013