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Lying and Christian ethics /
Defends Augustine and Aquinas's controversial 'absolute view' of lying: it is always wrong, even when for a good cause.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | New studies in Christian ethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.