“A main cause of philosophical disease – an unbalanced diet: one nourishes oneself with only one kind of example.” (Wittgenstein, PI 593)
Here is a collection of historical and fictional individuals whose circumstances, lives or depictions raise vexed issues about integrity. As difficult cases, they focus discussion from different directions on different aspects of the integrity question. Some have already generated discussion in existing literature.
More detailed discussion can be found on our Portraits of Integrity pages.
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- Hannah Arendt
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Mr. Adolf Verlog
- Elizabeth Costello
- Howard W. Campbell Jr
- Robespierre, the ‘Incorruptible’
- Rosa Parks
- Nelson Mandela
- George Orwell
- Heinrich Himmler
- Virginia Woolf
- John Brown
- Michael Kohlhaas
- Oscar Schindler
- Elizabeth Anscombe
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Edward Snowden
- Confucius
- Tony Benn
- Michael Kohlhaas
- Captain Vere
- Simone Weil
- Socrates
- Sir Edward Grey
- George Edward Moore
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- William Gladstone
- Henry James