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Owens, Patricia. "Hannah Arendt and the Problem of War, Hypocrisy and Wars on Hypocrisy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 <Not Available>. 2011-03-13 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p151555_index.html>

Owens, P. , 2006-08-31 "Hannah Arendt and the Problem of War, Hypocrisy and Wars on Hypocrisy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2011-03-13 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p151555_index.html

Publication Type: Proceeding Abstract: The rancorous debates about the invocation of human rights as part of the justification for recent Western wars can be analysed as a debate about hypocrisy. Should we reject such wars because Western states evoke human rights hypocritically, that is, while also taking actions that abuse human rights? Does exposing this hypocrisy increase, rather than lessen, human cruelty? It is certainly true that Arendt believed there were greater sins in the political realm than ‘hypocrisy’s conceits’. She noted more than once that truth telling has never been counted as one of the political virtues and that lying was ‘one of the tools in the arsenal of political action’. Nonetheless, there are strong grounds to argue that in Arendt’s thought hypocrisy, when normal and even expected, brings about something worse than cruelty. When duplicity becomes the defining feature of public life it destroys ‘the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world… And for this trouble there is no remedy’. Knowledge of political facts, including the hypocrisy of Western states, is the condition of possibility for a public world to exist. And without a public world, as Arendt frequently argued, human rights are impossible.

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