2018
DOI: 10.1111/meta.12303
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Honesty as a Virtue

Abstract: Honesty is widely accepted as a prime example of a moral virtue. And yet, honesty has been surprisingly neglected in the recent drive to account for specific virtuous traits. This paper provides a framework for an increased focus on honesty by proposing success criteria that will need to be met by any plausible account of honesty. It then proposes a motivational account on which honesty centrally involves a deep motivation to avoid deception. It argues that this account satisfies the required success criteria … Show more

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“…Second, an attitude of intellectual honesty is valuable at this stage. Researchers have long recognised that science and the academy would not advance without this important component (Wilson, 2018). According to White (2021): intellectual honesty might be defined simply as a focus on seeking the truth, even when it doesn’t agree with your own personal beliefs.…”
Section: Designing a New Pedagogy For Opportunity Recognitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second, an attitude of intellectual honesty is valuable at this stage. Researchers have long recognised that science and the academy would not advance without this important component (Wilson, 2018). According to White (2021): intellectual honesty might be defined simply as a focus on seeking the truth, even when it doesn’t agree with your own personal beliefs.…”
Section: Designing a New Pedagogy For Opportunity Recognitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Honesty will build mutual trust between buyers and sellers, who are dealing with new ways of transacting using online technology for the settlement of both payments and orders. Basically, honesty is a moral obligation and responsibility in doing business (Wilson, 2018); both activities in internal organizations between employees and employers to provide quality products and services provided or when carrying out external activities regarding the responsibility for the disclosure of business information needed by stakeholders (Kasasbeh, et al, 2014;Bialkowska, 2022). The possibility of pure honesty seems to be burdensome, but nevertheless, honesty to reveal the actual conditions is needed, which is at least free from the influence of individual interests and external interests.…”
Section: Honestymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Honesty is widely recognized as an important moral virtue (Wilson, 2018). People with a low level of honesty/humility tend to behave dishonest, manipulative, cheating, and pretentious.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%