Book contents
- Lying and Truthfulness
- Advance Praise for Lying and Truthfulness
- Lying and Truthfulness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Translations
- Introduction
- 1 Lying and Contemporary Christian Ethics
- 2 The Ambiguous Legacy of the Eighth Commandment
- 3 Aquinas on the Sins of Speech
- 4 Aquinas on the Virtue of Veracitas
- 5 Lying, Asserting, and Evading
- 6 A Thomistic Framework for the Ethics of Lying and Truthfulness
- 7 A Thomistic Theory of Bullshit
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2022
Book contents
- Lying and Truthfulness
- Advance Praise for Lying and Truthfulness
- Lying and Truthfulness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Translations
- Introduction
- 1 Lying and Contemporary Christian Ethics
- 2 The Ambiguous Legacy of the Eighth Commandment
- 3 Aquinas on the Sins of Speech
- 4 Aquinas on the Virtue of Veracitas
- 5 Lying, Asserting, and Evading
- 6 A Thomistic Framework for the Ethics of Lying and Truthfulness
- 7 A Thomistic Theory of Bullshit
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter sets out the aims and scope of the book, and it offers a summary of the primary argument: namely, that Thomas Aquinas’s analysis of lying and truthfulness provides resources for charting a clear path between the rigorist and consequentialist positions on offer in contemporary ethics.
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- Lying and TruthfulnessA Thomistic Perspective, pp. 1 - 11Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023