- Ethics, Values, Truthfulness and falsehood
"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 [this book] ... Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie"--Dust jacket flap.
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- Author
- Sam Harris
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 105
- Publisher
- Four Elephants Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781940051000
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Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American non-fiction writer, neuroscientist and proponent of scientific skepticism. He is the author of *The End of Faith* (2004), which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and *Letter to a Christian Nation* (2006), a rejoinder to the criticism his first book attracted. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris_(author)
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