PHI 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Paternalism
8 Oct 2015
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Deception: broad category that includes lying and misleading. i. e. a person p causes someone to have beliefs that p thinks are false. Lying: when a person p intentionally causes someone to have a belief that p thinks is false by making a statement which p believes to be false. Misleading: when a person p intentionally causes someone to have a belief that p thinks is false by making a statement that p thinks is true or performing an action. Withholding the truth: when a person p intentionally allows someone to have a belief that p thinks is false. A simple argument for lying: lying can benefit people in many cases. Many of these cases, it does not harm anyone. If something benefits people without doing any harm, we should do it. Therefore, we should lie sometimes when we can benefit people without harming anyone.
