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
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2022
- 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 distills the key insights of Aquinas’s position on lying and demonstrates the value of sustained reflection on this medieval thinker’s complex understanding of the virtue of veracitas.
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- Lying and TruthfulnessA Thomistic Perspective, pp. 186 - 194Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023