Kant and the right to lie reviewed essay: On a supposed right to lie from philanthropy, by Inmanuel Kant (1797)

Allen W. Wood

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dc.creator	Allen W. Wood
dc.date	2011
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-22T20:16:35Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-22T20:16:35Z
dc.identifier	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=85420750006
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/103538
dc.description	Kant´s strict views on lying have been regularly cited as a reason for thinking there is something fundamentally wrong with Kantian ethics. Some of Kant´s statements here seem so excessive that most Kantians who have dealt with the topic have tried to distance themselves from them, usually claiming that they do not (or need not) follow from Kant´s own principles. In this chapter, I will do a little of that, partly by questioning whether the famous example of the "murderer at the door" really fits the principles Kant applies to it. By and large, however, I will argue Kant¿s views about veracity are reasonable or at least defensible, if not selfevident. This is mainly because I also think some of them - specially his position in the brief, late and famous (or notorious) essay On a Supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy (1797)- have been badly misunderstood. My principal aim here will be to correct that misunderstanding.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Universidad del Norte
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=854
dc.rights	Eidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad del Norte
dc.source	Eidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad del Norte (Colombia) Num.15
dc.subject	Filosofía
dc.subject	Kantian ethics
dc.subject	right to lie
dc.subject	philanthropy
dc.subject	Kant
dc.subject	truthfulness
dc.title	Kant and the right to lie reviewed essay: On a supposed right to lie from philanthropy, by Inmanuel Kant (1797)
dc.type	artículo científico