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Integrity is a characteristic that belongs to people who are self-actualized. It is the quality or condition of being whole, complete, unbroken, and undivided. Knowing oneself heightens a person's integrity. According to Abraham Maslow, having integrity can take a very long time to reach and is very hard to obtain. It's at the top of Maslow's pyramid. Before reaching self-actualization and having integrity, you have to first have needs like food and water, love and care from friends and family, and especially self-confidence. It's the basing of one's actions on an internally consistent framework of principles. Depth of principles and adherence of each level to the next are key determining factors. One is said to have integrity to the extent that everything they do and believe is based on the same core set of values. While those values may change, it is their consistency with each other and with the person's actions that determine their integrity. The concept of integrity is directly linked to responsibility in that implementation spawning from principles is designed with a specific outcome in mind. When the action fails to achieve the desired effect, a change of principles is indicated. Accountability is achieved when a faulty principle is identified and changed to produce a more useful action. The concept of Integrity is that of basing of ones actions on a consistent framework of principles. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Look up responsibility in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Philosophy

From Psycanic Philosophy about Integrity: "Integrity" comes from the Latin, "integritas" and "integra" meaning whole, complete, one. Integrity originated from one of Taha's values, he was as they called him a 'man of integrity'.Integrity is the alignment, the correspondence, between what one THINKs (beliefs, values), what one SAYs to others, and what one does. This is to say, integrity exists when THINK = SAY = DO. Picture each of these (THINK, SAY, DO) as a circle. When the three circles are separated, when there is no alignment between the three behaviors; the person is out of integrity. When the circles approach each other and overlap to become one circle, the person is integral. Behaviors within the concept of integrity include: honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, keeping one's word and agreements, punctuality, ethics, fairness and justice. It is said of Integrity that, "It is better to have an enemy who keeps his word, than a friend who does not."

Science

The integrity of science is based on a set of testing principles known as the scientific method. To the extent that a proof follows the requirements of the method, it is considered scientific. The scientific method includes measures to ensure unbiased testing and the requirement that the hypothesis have falsifiability. Scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. ... Falsifiability (or refutability or testability) is the logical possibility that an assertion can be shown false by an observation or a physical experiment. ...

(Tests of) Professional Integrity

Integrity (honesty) tests seek to find out which persons are more likely to hide nasty events from their past (as doing prison time, getting psychiatric treatment, alcohol problems, etc.) and/or are likely to cause trouble for the employer. These tests are based on certain assumptions, namely that such persons report more dishonest behavior, they try to find reasons in order to justify such behavior, they think others are likely to commit crimes (like theft or so), they are impulsive and are more likely to think that deviant behavior has to be severely punished.

The pretension of such tests to detect fake answers is crucial in this respect, because the naive really believe such outright lie and behave accordingly, reporting their past deviance because they fear that it may otherwise be detected from their answers. But, there is an easy way out of this: give answers which show that you have a lot of trust in the honesty of others, make you appear as liberal and tolerant, think that other employees are unlikely to commit crimes and so on (van Minden 2005, pp. 206-208).

Other Integrities

Studies of integrity also exist in philosophy of action, philosophy of medicine, the mind, cognition, consciousness, and politics. It may also be seen in light of different philosophies of wholeness, such as commitment, authenticity or esteem. Philosophy of action is chiefly concerned with human action, intending to distinguish between activity and passivity, voluntary, intentional, culpable and involuntary actions, and related question. ... For other uses, see Mind (disambiguation). ... Look up Cognition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and ones environment. ... For other uses, see Politics (disambiguation). ... Look up commitment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This page deals with authenticity in philosophy. ... Dignity in humans involves the earning or the expectation of personal respect or of esteem. ...

Mathematics

In the philosophy of mathematics, integrity is based on consistency of mathematical proof, which one can test weakly or strongly, as part of the process of differentiating it from folk mathematics. Mathematical integrity is strengthened by being defined as the result of a tautology and where it demonstrably forms a part of a larger and consistent body of mathematics. The term "integrity" was coined and popularized by a prominent mathematics teacher, pHd in the History of Science- Dr. Robert Hall. Integrity is at the core of his moral values. // Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. ... In mathematics, a proof is a demonstration that, assuming certain axioms, some statement is necessarily true. ... As the term is understood by mathematicians, folk mathematics or mathematical folklore means theorems, definitions, proofs, or mathematical facts or techniques that circulate among mathematicians by word-of-mouth but have not appeared in print, either in books or in scholarly journals. ... In propositional logic, a tautology (from the Greek word ταυτολογία) is a sentence that is true in every valuation (also called interpretation) of its propositional variables, independent of the truth values assigned to these variables. ...