Lying
Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Erschienen am 27. April 2011
368 Seiten
978-0-307-78911-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Is it ever all right to lie? A philosopher looks at lying and deception in public and private life-in government, medicine, law, academia, journalism, in the family and between friends.
Lying is a penetrating and thoughtful examination of one of the most pervasive yet little discussed aspects of our public and private lives. 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 protect clients and peers. The consequences of such lies are then explored through a number of concrete situations in which people are involved, either as liars or as the victims of a lie.
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09/1999
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SISSELA BOK is a senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Previously, she was a professor of philosophy at Brandeis Univeristy. She is the author of Lying: Moral Choice in Private and Public Life; Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation; A Strategy for Peace: Human Values and the Threat of War; Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir; Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment; Common Values; and Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science. A former member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Bok is a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to the 1989 Edition
- Preface to the 1999 Edition
- Introduction
- I: Is The "Whole Truth" Attainable?
- The "Whole Truth"
- Truth and Truthfulness
- Defining Intentional Deception and Lying
- II: Truthfulness, Deceit, and Trust
- Lying and Choice
- The Perspective of the Deceived
- The Perspective of the Liar
- Discrepant Perspectives
- The Principle of Veracity
- III: Never to Lie?
- Rejecting All Lies
- Conflicts of Duty
- Religious Prohibitions
- IV: Weighing the Consequences
- The Role of Consequences
- Systems
- V: White Lies
- Harmless Lying
- Placebos
- Letters of Recommendation
- Truthfulness at What Price?
- VI: Excuses
- Types of Excuses
- Avoiding Harm
- Producing Benefits
- Fairness
- Veracity
- How Persuasive?
- VII: Justification
- Justification and Publicity
- Levels of Justification
- Caution and Risk-taking
- VIII: Lies in a Crisis
- The Acute Crisis
- Prolonged Threats to Survival
- Line-drawing
- Danger of Expanding Deceptive Practices
- IX: Lying to Liars
- Lying to Unmask Liars
- An Eye for an Eye
- Mutual Deceits
- X: Lying to Enemies
- Giving Enemies Their Due
- Countering Harm
- Rules of the Game
- XI: Lies Protecting Peers and Clients
- Confidentiality
- Fidelity to Colleagues
- Fidelity to Clients
- XII: Lies for the Public Good
- The Noble Lie
- Examples of Political Deception
- Deception and Consent
- XIII: Deceptive Social Science Research
- Social Science Experimentation
- Review Committees
- Questions of Professional Responsibility
- Pseudo-patient Studies
- XIV: Paternalistic Lies
- Paternalism
- Paternalistic Deception
- Justification?
- XV: Lies to the Sick and Dying
- Deception as Therapy
- The Patient's Perspective
- Respect and Truthfulness
- XVI: Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- About the Author
