PHILOS 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Priscillian
7 Feb 2016
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Augustine"s main point is there is no excuse for lying and that there is no justification for lying. Augustine and kant are two great historical absolutists about lying. Talking about the mainstream christianity and about the priscillians. You can"t lie to catch a liar. You can"t lie in the way they think you can. Focus on examples of outright, otherwise excusable lies lies that we (cid:2) would ordinarily think that they are permitted. Trying to tell them that you are with them, sympathetic to them, (cid:2) (cid:2) catch them. It would be lying to tell her: deontological, consequential. Argument 1: it"s hard to be truthful, but if i permit myself to lie, i am going to become worse at telling the truth. In lying, even for a good cause, you are going to lose the honesty guard and the ability to tell the truth. Premise 1: start with an assumption (premise) about the way the world works.
