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Truth Matters: Living in Dangerous Times - Aquinas on the Virtue of Truth-Telling

Fainché Ryan
Fainché Ryan
   | Jun 26, 2019
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Published Online: Jun 26, 2019
Page range: 35 - 48
Received: Dec 18, 2018
Accepted: Mar 14, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ejsta-2019-0003
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Current political and social climate seems to have as a presupposition the view that truth-telling has a merely instrumental value. This paper will explore Thomas Aquinas’ writing on truth and truth-telling, arguing that truth-telling is an intrinsic good, a human virtue and a component of human flourishing. In Aquinas’ view the virtue of truth-telling is a satellite virtue within the cardinal virtue of justice, and as such imperative for the flourishing of human society.

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Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Selected Philosophical Movements, Scholastic, Theology and Religion, Medieval Studies, Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion, Systematic Theology
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