2 - Lies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 June 2019
Summary
Liberals rightly value truth and truthfulness. But natural law theories frequently treat any choice to lie as an attack on flourishing, and this apparently extreme position might seem to make natural law theory a poor fit with liberalism. Chapter 2 emphasizes that, while there are good reasons to object to lying, an attractive reading of natural law theory might allow for the moral acceptability of a limited range of lies.
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- Flourishing LivesExploring Natural Law Liberalism, pp. 69 - 85Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019