What is integrity and why is it valuable? One account of the nature of integrity, proposed by John Cottingham amongst others, is The Integrated Self View. On this account integrity is a formal relation of coherence between various aspects of a person. One problem that has been raised against this account is that it isn’t obvious that it can account for the value of integrity. In this paper I will respond to this problem by providing an account of the value of an integrated self. I will do so by first looking closely at two examples from literature: John Sassal in John Berger’s A Fortunate Man and Tetrius Lydgate in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Based on my comparison of these two case studies I will argue that an integrated self is valuable as it makes people more likely to act in line with their moral judgements.

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完整性和整合自我的价值

什么是诚信？它为什么有价值？由 John Cottingham 等人提出的关于诚信本质的一种解释是综合自我观。因此，完整性是一个人的各个方面之间连贯性的正式关系。对此帐户提出的一个问题是，它能否解释完整性的价值并不明显。在这篇论文中，我将通过提供一个完整的自我价值的说明来回答这个问题。为此，我将首先仔细查看文学作品中的两个例子：约翰·伯杰 (John Berger) 的《幸运的人》中的约翰·萨萨尔 (John Sassal) 和乔治·艾略特 (George Eliot) 的《米德尔马奇 (Middlemarch)》中的 Tetrius Lydgate。基于我对这两个案例研究的比较，我认为一个完整的自我是有价值的，因为它使人们更有可能按照他们的道德判断行事。