Hypocrisy: Ethical InvestigationsBroadview Press, 10. mai 2004 - 352 pages Shortlisted for 2004 Saskatchewan Book Award: Best Scholarly Writing What is a hypocrite? What role does hypocrisy play in our lives? Why is it thought to be such an ugly vice? Is it ever acceptable? What do we lose in our indifference to it? Hypocrisy: Ethical Investigations seeks to illuminate the concept of hypocrisy by exploring its multiple roles in our moral and political lives and struggles. The authors provide a critical examination of a wide range of perspectives on the nature, varieties, and significance of hypocrisy, arguing that it is a key concept in the investigation of the field of morality in general, including its moralizing excesses. |
Contents
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A Catalogue of Cases | 47 |
Hypocrisy After Aristotle | 67 |
Consequentialism and Hypocrisy | 95 |
Kant and Hypocrisy | 121 |
Egoism and Hypocrisy | 161 |
Politics and Hypocrisy | 175 |
Privacy and Hypocrisy | 191 |
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Page 266 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. And there came a traveler unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring...
Page 144 - Assume' a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on.
Page 122 - Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.
Page 57 - I the matter will re- word ; which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass, but my madness speaks : It will but skin and film the ulcerous place ; Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven ; Repent what's past ; avoid what is to come ; And do not spread the compost on the weeds, To make them ranker.
Page 150 - Sometimes it happens that with the sharpest self-examination we can find nothing beside the moral principle of duty which could have been powerful enough to move us to this or that...
Page 56 - and you'll get on. It was what was always being dinned into you and me at school; it's what goes down best Be umble,
Page 122 - Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law...
Page 37 - But how will you look for something when you don't in the least know what it is ? How on earth are you going to set up something you don't know as the object of your search?
Page 237 - Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Page 237 - Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye?