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failure and hypocrisy

... I think it's worthwhile again to note the distinction between hypocrisy and akrasia, or simple moral weakness. This is an important distinction, albeit one made more difficult by the fact that "hypocrite" has entered the English language in a way that akrates has not. That word tends to get translated as "incontinent, lacking self-control," but it's literal meaning has more to do with powerlessness. Those of us who are not all-powerful sometimes fail. Such failure does not always, or even usually, entail the insincerity that is the hallmark of hypocrisy. It also does not involve the duplicity of hypocrisy—the notion that standards exist for thee but not for me.

from slacktivist: All you need is. a blog post about a guy's favorite part of the bible. bible-schmible, but I occasionally appreciate bits of other texts about philosophy and/or myth, so why not this.

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