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Emer O'Hagan will be presenting this talk in the Philosophy in the Community series.

(CANCELLED) Lies, Respect for Others, and Evil

A Philosophy in the Community event with philosophy professor Emer O'Hagan

Event

This event has been cancelled due to illness.

Date: Friday, Jan. 10
Time: 7 pm
Location: The Refinery, Emmanuel Anglican (formerly St. James) Church Basement, 607 Dufferin Ave., Saskatoon

Free and open to the public

About this event

Immanuel Kant advances an intuitive argument against lying. Roughly, he holds that lying is wrong because it fails to respect the autonomy of the person lied to. While intuitive, this view of lying runs into trouble when we consider cases where truth telling seems to involve significant harm to others. I begin this talk with a brief sketch of what counts as lying. Next, I explain Kant’s account of the wrongness of lying and his argument for why we should not lie to even an inquiring murderer. I will conclude by inviting the audience to participate in 
small group discussions on the nature and limits of the wrongness of lying.

Info: Philosophy in the Community webpage | sarah.hoffman@usask.ca 


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