![]() ![]() Benton, Robert J., ‘ Political expediency and lying: Kant vs. Fried, Charles, Right and Wrong ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978), pp. Wagner, Hans, ‘ Kant gegen “ein vermeintes Recht, aus Menschenliebe zu lugen”’, Kant-Studien, 69 ( 1978), 91–6 Google Scholar Schwarz, Wolfgang, ‘ Truth and truthfulness: a rejoinder’, Ethics, 83 ( 1973), 173–5 CrossRef Google Scholar (ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Kant Congress ( Dordrecht: D. Wood, Allen W., ‘Kant on false promises’, in Beck, L. M., ‘ Truth and truthfulness: a reply to Dr Schwarz’, Ethics, 82 ( 1972), pp. M., ‘ The ethical problem of the lie in Kant’, Kant-Studien, 63 ( 1972), 353–68 CrossRef Google Scholar 126 Google Scholar Schwartz, Wolfgang, ‘ Kant's refutation of charitable lies’, Ethics, 81 ( 1970), pp. Gregor, Mary J., Laws of Freedom ( Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1963), pp. Singer, Marcus George, Generalization in Ethics ( New York: Alfred Knopf, 1961), pp. Ebbinghaus, Julius, ‘ Kants Ableitung des Verbotes der Luge aus dem Rechte der Menschheit’, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 8 ( 1954), 409–22 Google Scholar A problem in Kantian ethics’, Kant-Studien, 45 ( 1954), 190– 203 CrossRef Google Scholar I am not concerned, in this article, with the arguments given by Kant both in his ethics and his philosophy of right as to why it is never morally permissible to tell a lie.Ĥ See, for example, Paton, H. Kant's argument that all lying violates a duty of virtue is to be found in his discussion of lying in the Doctrine of Virtue, part II of the Metaphysics of Morals (MM, 6: 429–31 (pp. ![]() The doctrine of virtue looks, in this transgression, only to worthlessness, reproach for which the liar draws upon himself. I here prefer not to sharpen this principle to the point of saying: 'Untruthfulness is a violation of a duty to oneself.' For this belongs to ethics, but what is under discussion here is a duty of right. ![]() He does add in a footnote, however, that all lying also violates a duty of virtue (to oneself): In this essay Kant is only concerned to argue that all lying violates a duty of right. 3 Kant's most forthright defence of the position that it is never morally permissible to tell a lie is to be found in his On a Supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy, published in 1797. ![]()
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