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alternative facts
Aristotle
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bullshitting
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communication
community
deception
disinformation
distrust
donald trump
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ethical issues
Ethics
fake news
falsehood
friendship
Georg Simmel
Hannah Arendt
honesty
Immanuel Kant
intent
language
lies
linguistics
Machiavelli
morality
motive
noble lie
nonfiction
philosophy
plato
politicians
politics
politics and society
privacy
purpose
relationships
secrets
society
sociology
Thomas Hobbes
trust
trusting others
truth
truthfulness
vulnerability
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- ISBN 9781789145632
- Dimensions: 120 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 14 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book is a comprehensive investigation of lying in everyday life. What exactly is a lie, and how does lying differ from related phenomena such as ‘bullshit’ or being truthful? Lars Svendsen also investigates the ethics of lying – why is lying almost always morally wrong, and why is lying to one’s friends especially bad? The book concludes by looking at lying in politics, from Plato’s theory of the ‘noble lie’ to Donald Trump.
Svendsen’s conclusion is that, even though we all occasionally lie, we are for the most part trustworthy. Trusting others makes you vulnerable, and you will be duped from time to time, but that is – all things considered – preferable to living in a constant state of distrust.
Lars Svendsen is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of many books for Reaktion including A Philosophy of Boredom (2004) and A Philosophy of Loneliness (2017).
