RT Article
T1 Truth Matters: Living in Dangerous Times - Aquinas on the Virtue of Truth-Telling
JF European journal for the study of Thomas Aquinas
VO 37
IS 1
SP 35
OP 48
A1 Ryan, Fainché
LA English
PB Sciendo
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1670178218
AB 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.
K1 Fake News
K1 Human Flourishing
K1 Lying
K1 Truth
K1 Virtue Ethics
DO 10.2478/ejsta-2019-0003