The Insufficiency Of Honesty By Stephen L. Carter

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In The Insufficiency of Honesty, Stephen L. Carter explained the difference between honesty and integrity. He started his essay by mentioning that people as a whole love talking about integrity but “that everybody who uses the word seems to mean something slightly different.” One thing that a lot of people have in common is how they use the words “honesty” and “integrity” interchangeably. People that use honesty instead of integrity do not understand that there is a difference between the two and they replace the words in order to get out of responsibilities that require morality. The main point of Carter’s essay was to argue that honesty and integrity are not the same thing. In order to get this point across to readers, he used different