Integrity:
"In failures of integrity, then, what passes for weakness of will is, many times, actually weakness of vision. The person's "will" is weak because he does not fully appreciate the stakes. The person who lacks integrity often suffers from a self-imposed nearsightedness as he puts on blinders that shut out the larger context that would make clear to him why a certain course is wrong--how it would be bad for him. Integrity requires that a person focus on the big picture, actively calling to mind the full context and identifying the relationship between his immediate alternatives and his broader values as clearly and completely as he can. Integrity demands that a person invoke his principles and remind himself that they are his means of living; it is only by adherence to rational principles that a person can achieve happiness. Understanding the mechanism of integrity as largely a matter of vision reflects the view that values (and correlative virtues) reflect the factual relationships in which particular things stand to a person's life. Consequently, the more clearly a person grasps these relationships, the easier it will be to as a morality of rational self-interest requires. Indeed, for a person committed to his rational self-interest, seeing the facts is all the motivation he needs."