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Tartuffe
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Tartuffe
swindles benefactor by pretending religious piety. [Fr. Lit.: Tartuffe]
See : Hypocrisy


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Instead, the "stiff and decorous Tartuffery of the old Kant as he lures us on the dialectical bypaths that lead to his 'categorical imperative'--really lead[s] astray and seduce[s].
That overstates the former's virtue (much in Greene's life was genuinely disreputable) but it catches something of the latter's boozy tartuffery.
 
 
 
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