Book contents
- Lying and Truthfulness
- Advance Praise for Lying and Truthfulness
- Lying and Truthfulness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Translations
- Introduction
- 1 Lying and Contemporary Christian Ethics
- 2 The Ambiguous Legacy of the Eighth Commandment
- 3 Aquinas on the Sins of Speech
- 4 Aquinas on the Virtue of Veracitas
- 5 Lying, Asserting, and Evading
- 6 A Thomistic Framework for the Ethics of Lying and Truthfulness
- 7 A Thomistic Theory of Bullshit
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Aquinas on the Sins of Speech
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2022
- Lying and Truthfulness
- Advance Praise for Lying and Truthfulness
- Lying and Truthfulness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Translations
- Introduction
- 1 Lying and Contemporary Christian Ethics
- 2 The Ambiguous Legacy of the Eighth Commandment
- 3 Aquinas on the Sins of Speech
- 4 Aquinas on the Virtue of Veracitas
- 5 Lying, Asserting, and Evading
- 6 A Thomistic Framework for the Ethics of Lying and Truthfulness
- 7 A Thomistic Theory of Bullshit
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter analyzes Aquinas’s mature thought on the sins of speech that are directly opposed to justice. It describes how he begins to part ways with his peers and forebears on the relationship between lying and the Eighth Commandment.
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- Lying and TruthfulnessA Thomistic Perspective, pp. 60 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023