Lying

Resource Information

The work Lying represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Lying

Statement of responsibility

Sam Harris

Creator

• Harris, Sam

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Electronic books
• Ethics
• Truthfulness and falsehood
• Values

Language

eng

Summary

As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption-even murder and genocide-generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. In Lying, best-selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie. He focuses on "white" lies-those lies we tell for the purpose of sparing people discomfort-for these are the lies that most often tempt us. And they tend to be the only lies that good people tell while imagining that they are being good in the process

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

177/.3

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult