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• Title:
  Concepts of lies and lie practices in the modern era
• Creator:
  Dietzsch, Steffen
• Description:
  Lies occupy a surprisingly favorable place within our daily life. As the Polish aphorist Stanisław Jerzy Lec once remarked: if you want to see the lie you need to face the obvious truth. With lies, we do not simply stigmatize the dark part or the “backside” of the humankind. To lie, meaning the ability to deceive, with or without words, even to deceive with the truth (for example in statistics), is one of the intellectual modalities of human existence, as well as an expression of misery. This leads to the paradox: One cannot live with lies or, at the same time, live without them. Lies thus reveal their double nature; they attempt to maintain vivid things, just as they generally tend to destroy them. This double nature of lies makes it impossible to condemn them by means of “ethical conviction”, as Max Weber would put it, or with the words of another famous French philosopher of our present time, Vladimir Jankélévitch, who says that consciousness is already provided with an inner disposi-tion to lie, as a litmus test of its noble and mean sides.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2019 Steffen Dietzsch
• Date:
  2019.06.05
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Public Philosophy & Democratic Education; Vol. 8 No. 1 (2019): Contemporary Challenges in Education and Professional Life; 38-57;
  Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna; Tom 8 Nr 1 (2019): Współczesne wyzwania w edukacji i życiu zawodowym; 38-57;
  2299-1875
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fped/article/view/23189/21834
• Subject:
  lie;
  double nature;
  modernity;
  Plato;
  Kant;
  Nietzsche;
  Scheler;
  Jankélévitch;
  politics;
  love;
  ressentiment
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fped/article/view/23189
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text