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by Adam Swift (Author) "What can I do for my children? Usually this question is practical, not moral ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (13 Mar 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415311179
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415311175
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"This is the most intellectually aggressive case for state education in recent times." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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- TES Book of the Week, 21/03/03

'Swift uses the weapon of moral philosophy in clear English devastatingly to demonstrate the social and moral disfunctionality of the dominance of Britain's private schools in our education system and the shallowness of the arguments supporting them. This is the most intellectually aggressive case for state education in recent times.' - Will Hutton

'How Not to Be a Hypocrite is a cogent appeal for honesty and scrupulousness in an area of life that is more often characterised by woolly thinking and dodgy self-justification. Reading it, I felt at times as I imagine a small fly might when it realises too late that it has wandered into the web of a very large and clever spider. Swift's web is expertly woven ... Swift has cauterised his subject with methodical ruthlessness and the feel of the blade slicing into flabby thinking is exhilarating. The result is an impassioned, timely plea for moral honesty and social responsibility.' - Rebecca Abrams, New Statesman

'The debate over whether it is ethical to send children to private schools has been re-ignited by a contoversial new book by an Oxford academic.' - The Oxford Times
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5.0 out of 5 stars A challenging and thoughtful book, 11 Jan 2004
By Christopher D. Bertram (Bristol, England) - See all my reviews
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Adam Swift's book manages to combine the tools of carefulness and readability. He uses the tools of contemporary political philosophy to address the question of how far parents may favour their own children consistent with a commitment to social justice. Free marketeers and libertarians aren't going to like his hostility to private schooling; moralistic Guardianistas aren't going to appreciate the scope he gives to parents to use those very schools under some circumstances. Whatever your prior assumptions about what it is right for parents to do for their children this book will certainly make you examine them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A case study of political hypocrisy, 24 Mar 2004
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As the title of Swift's book suggests, this is a book not just about a particular moral issue - the limits of parental partiality in favouring your own children when your choice of a suitable school for them might conflict with your commitment to social justice - but also about political hypocrisy as such. One of the many merits of Swift's subtle and admirably accessible discussion is that he upsets the sense you might easily have that you already know, without giving it much thought, what your beliefs about the shape of a just society require you to do in an unjust society you live in if your actions are to be consistent with your political creed. The link between political beliefs and actions other than voting is in fact less transparent than you might think, and the charge of hypocrisy more difficult to prove, both with regard to yourself and to other people. Perhaps - and this is a possibility Swift does not consider - when you're faced with a practical decision there isn't really any one thing you just have to do for your action to be consistent with your political beliefs. The general lesson of Swift's book is that your beliefs about the just society won't simply dictate your actions, and that political consistency isn't just a matter of putting one's principles into action, but also of knowing what it is that your principles actually demand of you. And that isn't itself contained in the principles and remains for you to work out.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Rife with ridiculous hypocrisy, 7 Jun 2009
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This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. You cannot use hypocrisy as a tool to combat hypocrisy its just silly. The ideas presented are in no way cogent, the rationalizations are contrived and dubious.
No book written on the assumption that life should be completely fair can hope to stand against the harshness of reality.
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