Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Ethics of Politics

By Ruth W. Grant

Questioning the usual judgements of political ethics, Ruth W. Grant argues that hypocrisy can actually be constructive while strictly principled behavior can be destructive. Hypocrisy and Integrity offers a new conceptual framework that clarifies the differences between idealism and fanaticism while it uncovers the moral limits of compromise.

• Language: English
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Release date: Apr 15, 2008
• ISBN: 9780226305929

Ruth W. Grant

Ruth W. Grant is professor of political science and philosophy and a senior fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. She is the author of John Locke's Liberalism and Hypocrisy and Integrity.

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