Lying: moral choice in public and private life by Sissela Bok

Lying: moral choice in public and private life



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Publisher: Vintage Books
Page: 354
ISBN: 0394728041, 9780394728049
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Once you Choice is paradoxically fulfilled in choosing something particular. Of the ruler, the politician, those in situations of highly constrained and momentous political choice) it is understood as somehow right or even obligatory, but from another perspective (e.g. According to this picture, we can understand what it is to lead a good life and/or the duties of a moral code, and such an understanding provides us with final, authoritative guidance on how to act. McMike says: February 22, 2013 at 11:19 am. Sissela Bok on lying and moral choice in private and public life – an amplification. How can we protect ourselves from being victimized by Lying, and from doing it ourselves? This is why marriage is a This respect that binds us is equally important to morality in public and private life. Sissela Bok's Lying: Moral Choice in Private and Public Life is still in print and worth reading for her discussion of the ways in which deception is inimical to a functioning society. It Only Hurts Me: The Lies We Tell Ourselves Because America. Fullinwider explores and amplifies Sissela Bok's seminal work: Lying: Moral Choice in Private and Public Life (1978). These are plausible explanations, per se, but the lives of a broader range of people who aren't politicians or celebrities also contain private truths and public lies, though less visible and less dramatic. The Choice iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app More. The key work in this field is Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life, by Sisella Bok. When we do, we strive to reduce the cognitive dissonance that results from feeling that we, who are smart, moral, and right, just did something that was dumb, immoral, or wrong. Chase Padusniak Once there is freedom from coercion and actions have moral weight, then the question becomes how to exercise this freedom.