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Lying and Deception - Theory and Practice (Paperback)
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Lying and Deception - Theory and Practice (Paperback)
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Thomas Carson offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date
investigation of moral and conceptual questions about lying and
deception. Part I addresses conceptual questions and offers
definitions of lying, deception, and related concepts such as
withholding information, "keeping someone in the dark," and "half
truths." Part II deals with questions in ethical theory. Carson
argues that standard debates about lying and deception between
act-utilitarians and their critics are inconclusive because they
rest on appeals to disputed moral intuitions. He defends a version
of the golden rule and a theory of moral reasoning. His theory
implies that there is a moral presumption against lying and
deception that causes harm - a presumption at least as strong as
that endorsed by act-utilitarianism. He uses this theory to justify
his claims about the issues he addresses in Part III: deception and
withholding information in sales, deception in advertising,
bluffing in negotiations, the duties of professionals to inform
clients, lying and deception by leaders as a pretext for fighting
wars, and lying and deception about history (with special attention
to the Holocaust), and cases of distorting the historical record by
telling half-truths. The book concludes with a qualified defence of
the view that honesty is a virtue.
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