“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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- Rosa Parks
- Michael Kohlhaas
- George Edward Moore
- John Brown
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Confucius
- Mr. Adolf Verlog
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- George Orwell
- Simone Weil
- Elizabeth Anscombe
- Howard W. Campbell Jr
- Sir Edward Grey
- Tony Benn
- Henry James
- Robespierre, the ‘Incorruptible’
- Virginia Woolf
- Nelson Mandela
- Socrates
- William Gladstone
- Captain Vere
- Elizabeth Costello
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- Hannah Arendt
- Oscar Schindler
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Heinrich Himmler
- Michael Kohlhaas
- Edward Snowden