LYING - Hardcover
Looks at the moral questions raised about lying throughout history and then carefully examines the justifications offered for all kinds of lies in public and private life and looks at the consequences of lying for the individual and for society
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addition to the growing debate over public and private morality. Looks at lying and deception in law, family, medicine, government.
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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.
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0394413709
- ISBN 13 9780394413709
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages326
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