| Description |
1 online resource (226 pages) |
| Series |
New Studies in Christian Ethics |
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New studies in Christian ethics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 What Is Lying?; The First Question; Some Initial Considerations; Assertions and the Definition of the Lie; The Intention to Deceive; The Right to the Truth; Chapter 2 The Christian Case against Lying: Augustine and Aquinas; St. Augustine; Augustine on God and Truth; The Negative Consequences of Lying; Lies for Religious Purposes Are Self-Defeating; Lies Lead to Lying; Lying Leads to Other Evils |
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Augustine on Objections to the Absolute View and Defenses of LyingErrors about Gravity; The End of the Liar Justifies the Lie; Concealing the Truth Is Lying; Failure to Lie Makes One Responsible for What Happens; But Lying Is the Only Way; St. Thomas on Lying; The Communicative Order; Communicating Truths; Communication of Oneself; Integrity; Chapter 3 The Christian Case for Lying: Cassian, Bonhoeffer, and Niebuhr; Cassian; Bonhoeffer; Niebuhr; Chapter 4 Moral Absolutes; Moral Absolutes and the Moral Life; John Paul II on Moral Absolutes; The Definition of Lying Again |
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The Pope against ProportionalismConsequentialism and Consequentialist Thought; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Integrity, Sociality, Truth, and Religion; Integrity; The Nature of Personal Integrity; The Good of Personal Integrity; Lying and Action against a Basic Good; Sociality and Community; The Nature of Community; The Good of Community; Intentional Damage to Communicative Community; Truth; Religion; Chapter 6 Justice and the Right to Truth; The Right to the Truth; The Obligation Not to Provide the Truth; The Ordinary Injustice of Lying; Defeating Conditions for the Injustice of Lying |
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Chapter 7 The Casuistry of Truth-Telling and DeceptionDouble Effect; Reasons for Nondisclosure; Silence and Evasion; Selective Truth-Telling; Economy; Equivocation and Reservation; Deception; Nonlinguistic Deceptions; Opting Out of Assertion and Speaking One's Interlocutor's Language; Conclusion; Chapter 8 Lying for a Good Cause; Nazis at the Door; Lying for the Polis; Lying for a Good Social Cause; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Series information continued |
| Summary |
Defends Augustine and Aquinas's controversial 'absolute view' of lying: it is always wrong, even when for a good cause |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Christian ethics.
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Truthfulness and falsehood.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics.
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Christian ethics
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Truthfulness and falsehood
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Truthfulness and falsehood -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139865555 |
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1139865552 |
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9781139871273 |
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1139871277 |
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1139699490 |
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9781139699495 |
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9781139862561 |
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9781139861267 |
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9781107447745 |
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9781139863421 |
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1139869159 |
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9781139869157 |
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