INTEGRITY, INTENTIONS, AND CORPORATIONS

Does it make sense to ascribe moral virtue to corporations in a direct , not some derivative or vicarious, way? It does make sense to ascribe at least one virtue, integrity, to corporations and to maintain that some corporations lack it when they should have it. To have integrity, one must evidence the intention to pursue the truth and the moral jus tifiability of one's convictions and principles. Intentions are, there fore, crucially involved in integrity. A plan theory of intention is m ore useful than the standard desire-belief model. Corporations are pla nning entities and can satisfy the conditions of intentionality on the planning theory. It therefore makes sense to say that corporations ca n perform intentional actions and adopt commitments, and, if that is t he case, they may act in ways that are consistent with the virtue of i ntegrity.