The point at which our moral conclusion (reasoning) translates to moral conviction (conclusions we reach from reasoning) is when we make the leap to change of behavior or thinking. But sometimes we realize we ought to do something but don’t actually do it. Is this essentially hypocrisy, or can it be defined in some other way?
One of the clearest forms of hypocrisy is the lack of congruence between our words & our actions. Many times, we tend to flow with the tide, not stand-up to our values and compromise to get ahead professionally in life. These are times we face a dilemma, and often prefer the choices that may be contrary to what we wish to be. This facade of trying to profess what we are not is hypocrisy. It is better to accept and re-set one's values and be congruent on the inside & the outside, than be hypocritical and get exposed.
One of the clearest forms of hypocrisy is the lack of congruence between our words & our actions. Many times, we tend to flow with the tide, not stand-up to our values and compromise to get ahead professionally in life. These are times we face a dilemma, and often prefer the choices that may be contrary to what we wish to be. This facade of trying to profess what we are not is hypocrisy. It is better to accept and re-set one's values and be congruent on the inside & the outside, than be hypocritical and get exposed.
Hypocrisy is to expect from others what you have not done or won't do
While Emmanuel is correct, the appearance of hypocrisy may be as frequent as hypocrisy itself, an archetypal form of behaviour that is less evident than we imagine. Sometimes people simply do not care enough to assume the same values on every issue, or may have opposing views and therefore made different situation decisions accordingly.
Hypocrisy:
1. Do not speak from the heart
2. Say the thruth only if it fits us.
3. What we do in front of people is different from what we do in private
I have seen hypocrisy in many walks of life; a boss changing colors on becoming CEO, a corrupt Govt. official on becoming a spiritual guru and a notorious student in college days on becoming a District Judge. But to me the very epitome would be doctors, making the noblest of professions the most unethical.
Hypocrisy is concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs
You may succeed for a while in hypocrisy of others, but you will fail to face hypocrisy on yourself,
Dear Reuben Govender, i came back again for your interesting question for the reason of my mind requested me again and again to know the reasons why we people are living in hypocritical world?
The reason we live in a world of hypocrites is because we do not stop our own hypocrisy and by doing so, stop seeing other people as hypocrites.
There’s an interesting book on this topic from the point of view of evolutionary psychology: Why Everyone (Else) Is A Hypocrite.
We see ourselves from the inside. We see all the reasons why we do things and all the rationalizations and motives and becauses. Our behavior is complex, but still usually makes sense to us. We are a full color diagram of a human being.
When we look at others, however, we do not see all of these reasons and hidden motivations. We see only their words and actions and we make up reasons based on those things. Other people seem very simple to us, as though they are in black and white. It is easy for us to see what their problems are and the answers to their problems, because those problems stand out from the background more.
However, this is an incorrect view. Other people see themselves in full color. They have reasons and motivations we know nothing of. I have a cousin who is always complaining about everything. She won’t stop calling my mother to talk about her problems. It’s easy for me to say, “She should learn to be grateful for what she has.” And yet I go to my mother to talk about my problems all the time and feel no guilt for doing so. Because I’m me, I don’t feel as though I complain all the time — I have reasons for my problems and thus my concerns seem more relevant than my cousin’s. I am a hypocrite; I don’t know what my cousin gets out of her talks with my mother. They may be the only thing that keeps her from killing herself. I don’t know and I doubt she’d ever tell me. The illusion I have that her problems are simple and straightforward is just an illusion — as is the illusion that my problems are complex and deserve attention while hers do not.
The reason we live in a world of hypocrites is because we do not stop our own hypocrisy and by doing so, stop seeing other people as hypocrites.
I think it’s because we view ourselves in color and others in black and white.
Dear Dr Kassahun, what a wonderful insight from such candid introspection. Thank you for sharing on this question. It has certainly provided me with a little more to think about in trying to conceptualize this question. Your idea of self-perception and the relativity aspect of hypocrisy and the analogy of colour certainly leaves one with much to ponder on.
Thank you very much Dear Dr. Reuben Govender for your affirmative responses.
Hypocrisy has become part of our daily life ?? The phenomenon of positions, the phenomenon of benefits, the phenomenon of flattery, where our lives revolve in a vicious cycle daily due to the degeneration of ethics and the decay of values and principles and then corruption as a deadly pest in society, after we attracted the charms and oppressed selfish people, and disappeared the spirit of the group, , And the absence of love, and became fascinated by the love of money, hypocrisy has become a natural thing and a way of life, and honesty has become unacceptable and a rare coin, and who follows the path of truth and follows the approach of honesty in his work and treat him and his behavior and ideas and value and principle is a strange person and abnormal from the rule!
Although an extreme structural leadership could push others to such a hypocritical behavior, without the inner tendency, but the different level of trauma from the important period of childhood could influence us to be so. Precisely, in the current transnational environment, the high impacts of being stuck in-between multi-cultural ambiguities or temptations would easily slide some individual toward the self-conflicting hypocrisy.
contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs
A double standard life may be hypocritical. On the outside people see use differently and morally up right but the things done in secret are not good.
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