In "the Insufficiency of Honesty" by Stephen Carter
Autor: joey11 • October 20, 2012 • Essay • 428 Words (2 Pages) • 6,951 Views
As an innocent child our parents taught us the value of the word honesty, to be truthful and not be blind in our falsification but integrity is little known in the minds of most Americans. In our society honesty remains a lonely word; everyone is untrue and it is hardy heard. We break the rules of honesty by telling little “white lies” willing it is omission, delusion, facades but the word is truly tested in such cases as in relationship and juridical system while integrity stand alone in the shadow. We use honesty without conviction of others. Honesty can do more destruction than justification while integrity equal justification. In “The insufficiency of Honesty” by Stephen Carter, Carter uses simple direct tone and straightforwardness language along with emphatically logic that vividly display ethical and emotional appeals with no room for miss interpretations to illustrate that honesty is untenable with integrity; honesty is a device for selfish motives or self promotion, while integrity is self morals. While honesty is a prerequisite for integrity, honestly by itself is insufficient for the realization of integrity
Is honesty the best policy? Our acceptance of lies is a social cancer that eventually grew and once honesty reveals itself it’s a force to be reckon with. Carter argued these points of insufficiency of honest into three incredibly strong constraints but before Carter lay out these three steps he introduce the audience the true virtue of both words in return makes his argument incredibly strong. Carter used the pureness form of honestly that roll into his most persuasive strategies both ethical and logical to dissipate the two. Carter pointed out ,“When a man who was raised from birth in a society that preaches racism states his belief in one race's inferiority as a fact, without ever really considering that perhaps this deeply held view is wrong”. Carter strikingly intense example of a racist man helps elevate the meaning
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