On hypocrisy

Metaphilosophy 13 (3-4):277-289 (1982)
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Abstract

I explore what and when hypocrisy is a moral wrong by interrogating the case of hypocrisy of Julien in Stendhal's The Red and The Black. I conclude hypocrisy is most morally vexed in those sphere where sincerity is required.

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Eva Kittay
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The ideal of sincerity.A. D. M. Walker - 1978 - Mind 87 (348):481-497.

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