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- Title
Kant on Lies, Candour and Reticence.
- Authors
Mahon, James Edwin
- Abstract
Like several prominent moral philosophers before him, such as St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas, Kant held that it is never morally permissible to tell a lie. Although a great deal has been written on why and how he argued for this conclusion, comparatively little has been written on what, precisely, Kant considered a lie to be, and on how he differentiated between being truthful and being candid, between telling a lie and being reticent, and between telling a lie and other forms of linguistic deception. That is to say, very little has been written on the scope of Kant's prohibition against lying. In this article I will argue that the scope of the prohibition against lying is narrower than it is commonly supposed to be.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2003, Vol 7, p102
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415400001758