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Frankfurt originally published the essay "On Bullshit" in the Raritan Quarterly Review in 1986. Nineteen years later, it was published as the book On Bullshit (2005), which proved popular among lay readers; the book appeared for 27 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list [3] and was discussed on the television show The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, [4] [5] as well as in an online interview.
Immanuel Kant. Images of Kant and Constant. " On a Supposed Right to Tell Lies from Benevolent Motives " (sometimes translated On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns) (‹See Tfd› German: Über ein vermeintes Recht aus Menschenliebe zu lügen) is a 1797 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant in which the author discusses ...
e. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (‹See Tfd› German: Über Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralischen Sinne, also called On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense[1]) is a philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche. It was written in 1873, one year after The Birth of Tragedy, [2] but was published by his sister Elisabeth in 1896 when ...
The post Laying vs. Lying: Which One Should You Use? appeared first on Reader's Digest. "Laying" and "lying" are so similar—in both sound and meaning—that it's easy to use them interchangeably ...
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by James W. Loewen that critically examines twelve popular American high school history textbooks. [ 1 ] In the book, Loewen concludes that the textbook authors propagate false, Eurocentric, and mythologized views of American history.
Christian views on lying. Lying is strongly discouraged and forbidden by most interpretations of Christianity. Arguments for this are based on various biblical passages, especially " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour ", one of the Ten Commandments. Christian theologians disagree as to the exact definition of "lie" and ...
Crises of the Republic was the third of Arendt's anthologies, and as the subtitle Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution indicates, consists of four interconnected essays on contemporary American politics and the crises it faced in the 1960s and 1970s. The first essay, "Lying in Politics" looks ...
978-1940051000. Preceded by. The Moral Landscape. Followed by. Free Will. Lying is a 2011 long-form essay book by American author and neuroscience expert Sam Harris. Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie. [1][2][3]