Lying and Christian Ethics.

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Author / Creator:Tollefsen, Christopher O.
Imprint:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (226 pages)
Language:English
Series:New Studies in Christian Ethics
New studies in Christian ethics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12015068
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.
English.
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Summary:Defends Augustine and Aquinas's controversial 'absolute view' of lying: it is always wrong, even when for a good cause.
Other form:Print version: 9781107061095

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520 |a Defends Augustine and Aquinas's controversial 'absolute view' of lying: it is always wrong, even when for a good cause. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
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