The Insufficiency Of Honesty Summary
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In “The Insufficiency of Honesty” Carter argued that honesty and integrity are not synonymous with each other; those who are honest may not have integrity. According to Carter, he defined integrity as a three point checklist, first a person needs to know what is right or wrong, next they need to react to what they realized and finally the person needs to openly admit their wrong doing. Firstly those who are honest may not know they are in the wrong, Carter’s example of the a man being raised in a racist environment may not “ever really [consider] that perhaps this deeply held view is wrong” (Carter 364). As a result, the honest racist man does not have a lot of integrity because he failed to meet the first point of Carter’s integrity checklist.