Truth & truthfulness : an essay in genealogy / Bernard Williams.

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Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003 [author.]

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9781400825141
1400825148

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Truth and truthfulness

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BD171 .W528 2002eb

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; 1 The Problem; 2 Genealogy; 3 The State of Nature: A Rough Guide; 4 Truth, Assertion, and Belief; 5 Sincerity: Lying and Other Styles of Deceit; 6 Accuracy: A Sense of Reality; 7 What Was Wrong with Minos?; 8 From Sincerity to Authenticity; 9 Truthfulness, Liberalism, and Critique; 10 Making Sense; Endnote. The Vocabulary of Truth: An Example; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index.

Summary: What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. Modern culture exhibits two attitudes toward truth: suspicion of being deceived (no one wants to be fooled) and skepticism that objective truth exists at all (no one wants to be naive). This tension between a demand for truthfulness.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-320) and index.

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What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. Modern culture exhibits two attitudes toward truth: suspicion of being deceived (no one wants to be fooled) and skepticism that objective truth exists at all (no one wants to be naive). This tension between a demand for truthfulness.

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