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If the Truth Be Damned |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Jude P. Dougherty |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2001 |
| Size: 2,249 Words, 14,577 Characters |
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There are many ways to lie, just as there are many ways to acknowledge truth. A few distinctions are in order. We speak truthfully when we say what is on our mind. Of course, we may be mistaken in judgment and yet truly convey what we believe to be the case. If I tell my son that his grandfather stood 6 feet 2 inches tall because I believe that to be the case, I have not told a lie, but I may have misinformed him if the truth be, as his grandfather's military records disclose, that he was only 6 feet tall. There is obviously a distinction to be made between speaking truly and judging truly. Both entail a conformity, the former of tongue and mind with reality and the latter of judgment with reality. vbcrlf There is an ancient philosophical axi...
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...totle, and the Stoics, finding it in a large measure compatible with biblical teaching. The Gospels themselves were received by men formed in Greek and Roman philosophy; from them, we have the great theological traditions that have shaped the West. These are perennial sources of self-understanding and social policy, providing "the truth that frees" even in the midst of adverse conditions. vbcrlf
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