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In particular, Aron considered that there was a form of intellectual dishonesty or hypocrisy at work in his time period, where some people were extremely critical of certain forms of government or society (such as capitalist democracy) but forgiving towards crimes and infractions committed in societies claiming to manifest the 'correct' ideology.
Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not. The word "hypocrisy" entered the English language c. 1200 with the meaning "the sin of pretending to virtue or goodness". Today, "hypocrisy" often refers to advocating behaviors that one does not practice.
He contended that evangelical American Protestantism's anti-intellectual tradition valued the spirit over intellectual rigor. Definition. Hofstadter described anti-intellectualism as "resentment of the life of the mind, and those who are considered to represent it; and a disposition to constantly minimize the value of that life."
When the heads of Penn, Harvard, and MIT unanimously testified that discipline for antisemitic speech was “context dependent,” their rank intellectual hypocrisy became evident.
Illustration by Brittany England. Here’s a look at some everyday examples of cognitive dissonance and how you might come to terms with them. 1. Picking up after your dog. Let’s say you have a ...
A score of 116 or more is considered above average. A score of 130 or higher signals a high IQ. Membership in Mensa, the High IQ society, includes people who score in the top 2 percent, which is ...
A deep understanding of nature may even be a type of intelligence, according to Gardner. Naturalist intelligence might show up, for example, as an innate ability to recognize patterns or changes ...
"The desire for uniformity leads to suppression of individual initiative, to the dwarfing of personality and creative effort, to intolerance, oppression, and slavery, and, worst of all, to intellectual dishonesty and moral hypocrisy." In contrast to a Marxist vision of history, Hu's conception of history is pluralistic and particular.