Political hypocrisy : the mask of power, from Hobbes to Orwell and beyond /

A critical assessement of the problems of sincerity and truth in politics argues that we should accept hypocrisy as a fact of politics without resigning ourselves to it or embracing it, drawing on the lessons of such thinkers as Hobbes, Mandeville, Jefferson, Bentham, Sigwick, and Orwell.

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Hlavní autor: Runciman, David
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2018.
Vydání:Revised edition.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1zk0mt1
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Shrnutí:A critical assessement of the problems of sincerity and truth in politics argues that we should accept hypocrisy as a fact of politics without resigning ourselves to it or embracing it, drawing on the lessons of such thinkers as Hobbes, Mandeville, Jefferson, Bentham, Sigwick, and Orwell.
Fyzický popis:1 online resource
Bibliografie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400889662
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