He focuses on "white" lies—those lies we tell for the purpose of sparing people discomfort—for these are the lies that most often tempt us.
Is lying always wrong, or always at least prima facie wrong? What can one learn from a liar? Can we lie to mindless machines? These engaging questions and many more are explored at length in this accessible reference text.
Beginning with the moral questions raised about lying since antiquity, Sissela Bok takes up the justifications offered for all kinds of lies--white lies, lies to the sick and dying, lies of parents to children, lies to enemies, lies to ...
"This book is a fascinating journey--from Augustine's total ban on lying, through the compromises of philosophers like Plato and Aquinas, to the radical espousal of truth's impossibility in Nietzche.
Lying: Children's Moral Judgment
Beginning with the moral questions raised about lying since antiquity, Sissela Bok takes up the justifications offered for all kinds of lies—white lies, lies to the sick and dying, lies of parents to children, lies to enemies, lies to ...
What I will endeavor to show is that adopting a theory of lying that ties lying closely together with the Stalnakerian notion of assertion will leave us ill-situated to explain why the lies we tell each other together are in fact lies.
The whole of the Summa's second part (IaIIae and IIaIIae together) treats human life: what it is, what it's for, how human action is and ought to be ordered. Within this overarching concern, Aquinas uses the schema of the seven virtues, ...
From attitudes, to the way they say something, this book explains what to look for." -Randy Victor ~"This book was fun and useful at work and in my personal life.
In Lying, Lauren Slater forces us to redraw the boundary between what we know as fact and what we believe we create as fiction.
Is lying always wrong, or always at least prima facie wrong? What can one learn from a liar? Can we lie to mindless machines? These engaging questions and many more are explored at length in this accessible reference text.