Can lying ever be justified? | Helen Lederer, James Mahon, Mark Salter

Philosophy For Our Times

English - November 21, 2017 11:05 - 32 minutes - 30 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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Weapons of mass destruction, the NSA, and Watergate: many have felt cheated by the lies of the powerful. Yet we all twist the truth to keep people happy and deceive in order to protect. Is lying oddly essential? Should we accept lying as part of personal and public life? Or is there always more beauty in truth?

New York philosopher and author of Lying for the Sake of Truth James Mahon, Absolutely Fabulous star Helen Lederer, and psychiatrist Mark Salter dissect the ethics of deceit.

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