Editing Sincerity (section)

==In Western societies==
Sincerity was discussed by [[Aristotle]] in his ''[[Nicomachean Ethics#Book VI: Intellectual virtues|Nicomachean Ethics]]''. It resurfaced to become an ideal ([[virtue]]) in [[Europe]] and [[North America]] in the [[17th century]]. It gained considerable momentum during the [[Romantic movement]], when sincerity was first celebrated as an [[artistic]] and social ideal, exemplified in the writings of [[Thomas Carlyle]] and [[John Henry Newman]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tillotson |first=Geoffrey |url=http://archive.org/details/viewofvictorianl00till|url-access=registration |title=A View of Victorian literature |year=1978 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-812044-5 |location=Oxford |pages=23–54 |language=English |chapter=Earnestness}}</ref> In middle to late nineteenth century America, sincerity was reflected in mannerisms, hairstyles, women's dress, and the literature of the time. 

Literary critic [[Lionel Trilling]] dealt with the subject of sincerity, its roots, its evolution, its moral quotient, and its relationship to [[authenticity (philosophy)|authenticity]] in a series of lectures published as ''[[Sincerity and Authenticity]]''.{{r|SAA}}

===Aristotle's views===
According to Aristotle "[[Honesty|truthfulness]] or sincerity is a desirable mean state between the deficiency of [[irony]] or [[self-deprecation]] and the excess of [[boast]]fulness."<ref>{{multiref2
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