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Honesty requires truthfulness in thought and speech. — Carmelics

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Honesty requires truthfulness in thought and speech.

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1.Honesty is the recognition of the fact that one cannot fake existence.
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2.This recognition is expressed in truthfulness in thought and speech.
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1.Bernard Williams distinguishes sincerity (not asserting what one disbelieves) from accuracy (caring whether beliefs are true), showing truthfulness is not unified.
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2.Honesty may require accuracy in inquiry without requiring full disclosure in speech, making the claim's conjunction of thought and speech overly strong.
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1.Kant's doctrine of lying to murderers and Korsgaard's reflective endorsement model show that honesty norms are grounded in respect for rational agency, not metaphysical anti-faking.
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2.If honesty is grounded in respect for persons rather than facts about existence, truthfulness in speech admits of justified exceptions that Rand's formulation categorically forecloses.
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is the basic virtue of which the other virtues are aspects or derivatives. The virtues are thus united or reciprocal. Each virtue is defined partly in terms of a recognition of, and appropriate responsiveness to, some important fact or facts, a recognition and responsiveness understood by the agent to be indispensable for gaining, maintaining, or expressing her ultimate value. For example, integrity is “the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness” (1957 [1992]: 936), a re

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Perspectives: 3 (1 for, 2 against)
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