Preach! (Practice not Included): A Qualified Defense of Hypocrisy

IF 1 2区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI:10.1007/s10677-024-10456-x

Carlos Santana

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Abstract

Hypocrisy is generally treated as particularly repugnant, perhaps the “only unforgivable sin.” I argue that this attitude is misplaced. Hypocrisy—especially quotidian hypocrisy by the average citizen—plays an essential role in maintaining and promoting a good society. Hypocrisy facilitates the establishment and maintenance of beneficial social norms, and can secure better social outcomes when full compliance with a norm is suboptimal. The hypocrite then, is sometimes playing a crucial role in society, and in such cases doesn’t deserve the full measure of the reprobation we usually reserve for them. Instead of focusing our reactions on their hypocrisy, we should instead target our attitudes on the misbehavior itself.

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宣讲！(不包括练习）：为虚伪辩护

虚伪通常被视为特别令人厌恶的行为，也许是 "唯一不可饶恕的罪过"。我认为这种态度是错误的。虚伪--尤其是普通公民的日常虚伪--在维护和促进良好社会方面发挥着至关重要的作用。虚伪有利于建立和维护有益的社会规范，当完全遵守规范并不理想时，虚伪可以确保更好的社会结果。因此，虚伪者有时在社会中发挥着至关重要的作用，在这种情况下，他们不应该受到我们通常对其保留的全部指责。与其把我们的反应集中在他们的虚伪上，不如把我们的态度对准不当行为本身。

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Ethical Theory and Moral Practice PHILOSOPHY-

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