6 essays on integrity from the Consilium journal. Featuring Soren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, Leo Tolstoy. Each pits three thinkers against one hard question.
Three thinkers on moral cost and conscience. Kierkegaard says anxiety is freedom's price. Schopenhauer says examine what you're protecting. Tolstoy says your conscience already knows.
Three thinkers disagree about principled compromise. Clausewitz says friction is real. Aristotle says rules exist to serve something deeper. Havel says complicity compounds.
Three thinkers on broken promises. Russell says logic decides. Du Bois says justice overrides. Austen says character is what you do when keeping your word costs.
Three thinkers disagree about blind loyalty. Machiavelli asks what the situation requires. Havel asks what you refuse to say. Wollstonecraft asks who benefits.
Three thinkers on when to speak out. Orwell says name what you see. Douglass says silence has always served the powerful. Weil says look first, then speak.
Three thinkers disagree about honesty and harm. Hannah Arendt defends the truth. Confucius defends the bond. Nietzsche asks what your honesty is really serving.
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