Post-Truth and Vices Opposed to Truth
Philosopher Harry Frankfurt has famously coined "bullshit" as a technical termit refers not to outright lying but rather to a casual indifference to truth. Disregard for truth is accepted and even expected in many contexts, yet it creates conditions for gross injustice and dehumanization....
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2017]
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Année: 2017, Volume: 37, Numéro: 2, Pages: 97-116 |
| RelBib Classification: | FA Théologie NCB Éthique individuelle NCD Éthique et politique VA Philosophie |
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| Résumé: | Philosopher Harry Frankfurt has famously coined "bullshit" as a technical termit refers not to outright lying but rather to a casual indifference to truth. Disregard for truth is accepted and even expected in many contexts, yet it creates conditions for gross injustice and dehumanization. I offer an account of widespread cultural indifference to truth as structural sin, a condition I call "truth indifference." Drawing on Thomas Aquinas's understanding of the virtue of truth (veracitas), I map out the conceptual framework that must be in place before Christian ethicists can provide an adequate moral analysis of structural truth indifference. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/sce.2017.0035 |