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Original Title:	Lying ASIN B005N0KL5G
Edition Language:	English

Lying Kindle Edition | Pages: 26 pages

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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.

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Title	:	Lying
Author	:	Sam Harris
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 26 pages
Published	:	September 13th 2011 (first published September 2011)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Psychology. Science

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Ratings: 3.87 From 14450 Users | 1248 Reviews

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Fantastic - should be required reading for everyone, especially because it's so short. This book will make you think twice about telling lieseven the most subtle, well-intentioned white lies. The key things I took away from this book are:1. "To lie is to recoil from relationship."2. Lies, even white lies, are indicators of a poor quality relationship.3. To offer insincere praise is to treat someone like a child when everyone else will judge them as adults. We do them no favors by sparing their

Despite its pithy title and sparse number of pages, "Lying" packs a wallop! This is perhaps one of the most important books I've ever read and it's clear once reading it that the world would be a sorely better one if everyone followed the precepts written within.This thin volume has received some criticism of the "oh well, it's just what grandma says and everyone already knows it" variety. Clearly these people didn't take away much from this book, but that likely has more to do with themselves

An intriguing volume, if not entirely convincing. I may post a full review on my website.

When is it okay to lie? When is it not? Sam has opinions which he'll gladly tell you. But they seem a bit arbitrary to me.On top of that, the writing is incredibly dry. I do think the subject could be interesting (especially if approached by an author with a less simplistic but more internally consistent view), but Sam's take didn't do it for me. There's no sense of humor, there's no exploration, there's just simple and dry utterance of what amounts to moralism.But let's take an example he

As someone who finds it incredibly difficult and unnatural to lie, and who, as a result, knows full well the pitfalls of being constantly honest, I was curious to read this book. It had very good reviews - but after reading it I wasn't really sure why. It's not a terrible book, but what it says is either blatantly obvious (to me, at any rate), or else not entirely true. While of course there are many kinds of untruth that cause all kinds of problem, the author goes as far as to argue that any

Sloppy and philosophically bad quality arguments. Which one would expect from an existentialist philosopher. But not a scientist. Sam Harris fails to abandon intuition and descriptive ethics as a prescriptive. This method of reasoning is what I call lazy argumentation in which one would try to justify (very quickly) their already made decisions. My ratings:Flow: 4/5Style of writing: 5/5 Consistency: 1/5Content: 2/5

This is less of a book than a long essay, one that is currently available in free downloadable PDF form from Harris' website.Throughout the piece, Harris makes the argument that there are significant benefits to be gained both personally and societally by rejecting lying in both large and small forms.Most of us think of ourselves as honest people, yet may still frequently engage in the "white lie," an act of dishonesty designed to spare both ourselves and another discomfort. Harris offers some