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- Title
A PROPOSITO DI UN'ETICA (?) DELLA BUGIA IN AGOSTINO D'IPPONA.
- Authors
Grossi, Vittorino
- Abstract
This article focuses on St. Augustine's reflection on ethical questions concerning truth telling and lying. This question in Augustine is complicated inasmuch as it involves treatment of two works that he dedicated to this theme: De mendacio (394/395) and Contra mendacium (420), as well as the intellectual journey that he undertook during the intervening years. By comparing these two writings one can detect movement in Augustine's thought from a certain intransigence, evidenced in the earlier work, to a solution more attentive to the pastoral dimension in the later work, in which Augustine makes clear that the moral exigence in favor of telling the truth should take into account the content, the form in which it is transmitted and the receiver of the communication, in order that truth telling (veritas) is always also salutary (salus).
- Publication
Lateranum, 2015, Vol 81, Issue 3, p575
- ISSN
1010-7215
- Publication type
Article