Lying
Lying

Author: Sam Harris

Publisher: Four Elephants Press

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1940051010

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As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption—even murder and genocide—generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. In Lying, best-selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie. 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. And they tend to be the only lies that good people tell while imagining that they are being good in the process.

A Right to Lie?
A Right to Lie?

Author: Catherine J. Ross

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0812253256

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Do the nation's highest officers, including the President, have a right to lie protected by the First Amendment? If not, what can be done to protect the nation under this threat? This book explores the various options.

Lying and Deception
Lying and Deception

Author: Thomas L. Carson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-04-29

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0199577412

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This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of moral and conceptual questions about lying and deception. Carson argues that there is a moral presumption against lying and deception that causes harm, he examines case-studies from business, politics, and history, and he offers a qualified defence of the view that honesty is a virtue.

Lying and Christian Ethics
Lying and Christian Ethics

Author: Christopher Tollefsen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-28

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1107061091

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Defends Augustine and Aquinas' controversial 'absolute view' of lying: it is always wrong, even when for a good cause.

Lying, Misleading, and What is Said
Lying, Misleading, and What is Said

Author: Jennifer Mather Saul

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0199603685

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Jennifer Saul presents a close analysis of the distinction between lying to others and misleading them, which sheds light on key debates in philosophy of language and tackles the widespread moral preference for misleading over lying. She establishes a new view on the moral significance of the distinction, and explores a range of historical cases.

Polpop
Polpop

Author: James E. Combs

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780879722760

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This book discusses various components of popular culture and the effects they have on politics. Some of the areas of mass culture which are discussed are: popular dramas, folk heritage, the Western myth, sports, religion, media, propaganda, and show business.

Lying and Christian Ethics
Lying and Christian Ethics

Author: Christopher O. Tollefsen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-28

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1139868292

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This book defends the controversial 'absolute view' of lying, which maintains that an assertion contrary to the speaker's mind is always wrong, regardless of the speaker's intentions. Whereas most people believe that a lie told for a good cause, such as protecting Jews from discovery by Nazis, is morally acceptable, Christopher Tollefsen argues that Christians should support the absolute view. He looks back to the writings of Augustine and Aquinas to illustrate that lying violates the basic human goods of integrity and sociality and severely compromises the values of religion and truth. He critiques the comparatively permissive views espoused by Cassian, Bonhoeffer, and Niebuhr and argues that lies often jeopardize the good causes for which they are told. Beyond framing a moral absolute against lying, this book explores the questions of to whom we owe the truth and when, and what steps we may take when we should not give it.