Hypocricy
We can be hypocrites and know we are. Judith Shklar describes a naïve hypocrite one who hides acts and beliefs he knows to be wrong and may even suffer a guilty conscience.
The new hypocrite thinks himself a paragon of virtue. He doesn’t think he’s faking anything, he may be blithely or smugly delighted with the role he has assumed, experiencing himself as sincerely what he is purporting to be, but be culpably deluded as to the sincerity of his sincerity. Shklar says he simply adjusts his conscience by ascribing noble, disinterested and altruistic intentions to all his behavior.
The naïve hypocrite a conscious deceiver, the new hypocrite a seamless self-deceiver.
Faking It- William Ian Miller
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