Sissela Bok est une philosophe et éthicienne suédo-américaine dont le travail explore les dimensions éthiques de la véracité, de la tromperie et des complexités de la vie moderne. Elle examine de manière critique les fondements de la confiance dans la société, les responsabilités morales dans des domaines professionnels tels que la médecine et les justifications éthiques des conflits. Bok prône constamment la transparence, la responsabilité et la recherche de valeurs communes par le biais d'un discours raisonné. Son analyse perspicace de difficiles questions morales en fait une voix importante dans la pensée éthique contemporaine.
Personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha (nonviolent protest)movement. His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification,and ultimate salvation of his homeland is carefully recounted in this inspiring and critical work of insurmountable importance.
Is it ever all right to lie? A philosopher looks at lying and deception in public and private life—in government, medicine, law, academia, journalism, in the family and between friends. Lying is a penetrating and thoughtful examination of one of the most pervasive yet little discussed aspects of our public and private lives. Beginning with the moral questions raised about lying since antiquity, Sissela Bok takes up the justifications offered for all kinds of lies—white lies, lies to the sick and dying, lies of parents to children, lies to enemies, lies to protect clients and peers. The consequences of such lies are then explored through a number of concrete situations in which people are involved, either as liars or as the victims of a lie.