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Lying

Sam Harris

  • Bindwijze: Hardcover
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Religie, Spiritualiteit & Filosofie
  • ISBN: 9781940051000
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:21 november 2013
Aantal pagina's:105
Illustraties:Nee
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Hoofdauteur:Sam Harris
Hoofdredacteur:Annaka Harris
Hoofdredacteur:Annaka Harris
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Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:109 mm
Product hoogte:18 mm
Product lengte:168 mm
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:106 mm
Verpakking hoogte:17 mm
Verpakking lengte:170 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:255 g
Overige kenmerken
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:109 mm
Product hoogte:18 mm
Product lengte:168 mm
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:106 mm
Verpakking hoogte:17 mm
Verpakking lengte:170 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:255 g

Samenvatting

As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption--even murder and genocide--generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. In Lying, best-selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie. He focuses on white lies--those lies we tell for the purpose of sparing people discomfort--for these are the lies that most often tempt us. And they tend to be the only lies that good people tell while imagining that they are being good in the process.