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Lying

Hardcover • 2013 • English

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About the book

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 situati...Show more

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ISBN

9781940051000

Publisher

Four Elephants Press

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Lying

Format

Hardcover

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