Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life - Softcover

Bok, Sissela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394728041 ISBN 13: 9780394728049

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1979

Synopsis

Lying Moral Choice in Public and Private life Book

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

addition to the growing debate over public and private morality. Looks at lying and deception in law, family, medicine, government.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0394728041
• ISBN 13: 9780394728049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354