The Specter of Hypocrisy: Testing the Limits of Moral Discourse 3030605728, 9783030605728
Raphael Sassower examines the concept of hypocrisy for its strategic potential as a means of personal protection and soc
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English Pages 238 [255] Year 2021
Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Introduction
References
Contents
1 Degrees of Truth
1.1 The Context of Post-Truth: The Trumpian Age
1.2 Critiques of Scientific Truths
1.3 The Politics of Post-Truth
1.4 Perspectival Truths
References
2 Greek Masks and Hebrew Chameleons
2.1 Greek and Hebrew Etymologies of Hypocrisy
2.2 Five Examples
2.2.1 Israel, Nuclear Weapons, and Iran
2.2.2 Celibate Clergy in the Catholic Church
2.2.3 President Obama’s “Code Switching”
2.2.4 President Trump’s Torture Comments
2.2.5 WeWork’s CEO on Community Building
2.3 Some Standard Views and Their Limitations
2.4 Alternative Readings
References
3 Complicity and Compromise
3.1 Political Economy
3.2 Individuals and Communities
3.3 Organized Hypocrisy on the Political Economic Stage
3.4 The Price of National Security: Loss of Identity
References
4 In Search of the Self
4.1 Acting, Reacting, and Posing
4.2 Group Psychology
4.3 Krasner on the Modular Mind
4.4 Caillois and Nietzsche on Mimicry
References
5 Misrecognition and Passing
5.1 Religious Precedence
5.2 Passing and Code-Switching
5.2.1 The Predicaments of Passing
5.2.2 Code-Switching
5.3 Visibility, Invisibility, and Identity
5.4 Morality at Work
References
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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