Original Articles
Vol. 67 No. 1 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2018.529
Dire la verità / To tell the truth
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Received: 23 March 2018
Accepted: 23 March 2018
Published: 23 March 2018
Accepted: 23 March 2018
Published: 23 March 2018
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Can we lie for a good purpose? Is it better to tell the whole truth immediately, or to leak it progressively, taking into account the interlocutor's capacity to suffer? These ethical dilemmas are often raised in the most varied professional fields and first of all in our daily life. Do the different traditions that gave rise to western culture share similar attitudes towards truth and lies? What about Greek culture? What about Judeo-Christian culture? What about Modernity? How has philosophical reflection developed these topics? What did Plato, Augustine, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant, Constant, Feyerabend, MacIntyre and Sandel think about these issues? After dealing with these difficult questions, this short essay tries to look for an answer in the Aristotelian concept of phronesis and in the Kantian notion of reflective judgement, testing these conceptual tools through bioethical and clinical medical cases.
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Dire la verità / To tell the truth. (2018). Medicina E Morale, 67(1), 71-88. https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2018.529
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