Episode #248 ... What philosophers say about lying.

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  Hello, everyone.

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  I'm Stephen West.

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  I hope you love the show today.

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  So as you no doubt noticed when you saw the title of this podcast,

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  there's going to be an episode about the philosophy of lying.

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  What were the thoughts of some of the greatest philosophers who have ever lived about lying?

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  And what are their thoughts on whether it's a good thing for people to do or not?

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  Now, for some people, this may seem like there's a really obvious answer to it.

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  Why even talk about any of this stuff?

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  But I think this is a good example of something

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  where philosophy can deepen the way that you see the world by taking a minute

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  to look at some of the less common sense ways of thinking about it.

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  So I think it's worth noting

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  here at the very start of this, a fairly typical way that people like to think about lying.

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  There's no doubt going to be plenty of people listening to this that assume a few different things about it.

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  That what a lie is, is when somebody knowingly makes a false statement trying to deceive someone else.

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  That lying is deeply wrong at its core.

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