Material Type  

 단행본

 

n894790126

Date and Time of Latest Transaction  

20170112071111.2

ISBN  

9781400852079 (electronic bk.)

ISBN  

1400852072 (electronic bk.)

LC Callnumber  

BJ1421-.D46

DDC  

177/.309-23

Author  

Denery, Dallas G.((Dallas George)) , 1964-

Title/Author  

The devil wins - [electronic resource] : a history of lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment : Dallas G. Denery II

Material Info  

1 online resource (347 pages)

서지주기  

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note  

완전내용Cover; The Devil Wins; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Is It Ever Acceptable to Lie?; PART ONE: Theologians Ask the Question; CHAPTER ONE. The Devil; Six Days and Two Sentences Later; The Devil and the Lie; Making Sense of Genesis 1, 2, and 3; The Devil's Lie from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages; The Devil's Lie from the Middle Ages to the Reformation; The Prince of This World; From Satan's Stratagems to Human Nature; CHAPTER TWO. God; Can God Lie?; On Lions, Fishhooks, and Mousetraps; Divine Deception and the Sacrament of Truth.

Formatted Contents Note  

완전내용Luther, Calvin, and the Hidden GodRené Descartes, Pierre Bayle, and the End of Divine Deception; CHATER THREE. Human Beings; Every Lie Is a Sin; Every Sin Is a Lie; Biblical Liars; Augustine among the Scholastics; Institutional Transformations; Equivocation, Mental Reservation, and Amphibology; From Pascal to Augustine and Beyond; PART TWO: Courtiers and Women Ask the Question; CHAPTER FOUR. Courtiers; Flatterers, Wheedlers, and Gossipmongers; Early Modern Uncertainty and Deception; Uncertainty and Skepticism in the Medieval Court; Entangled in Leviathan's Loins.

Formatted Contents Note  

완전내용Christine de Pizan and Just HypocrisyFrom Lies to Civility; Bernard Mandeville and the World Lies Built; CHAPTER FIVE. Women; Lessons about Lies; All about Eve, All about Women; The Biology of Feminine Deceit; Christine de Pizan, Misogyny, and Self-Knowledge; All Men Are Liars; Madeleine de Scudéry, the Salon, and the Pleasant Lie; CONCLUSION: The Lie Becomes Modern; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Abstracts/Etc  

요약Is it ever acceptable to lie? This question plays a surprisingly important role in the story of Europe's transition from medieval to modern society. According to many historians, Europe became modern when Europeans began to lie-that is, when they began to argue that it is sometimes acceptable to lie. This popular account offers a clear trajectory of historical progression from a medieval world of faith, in which every lie is sinful, to a more worldly early modern society in which lying becomes a permissible strategy for self-defense and self-advancement. Unfortunately, this story is wrong. F.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Truthfulness and falsehood

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

PHILOSOPHY Ethics & Moral Philosophy.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

HISTORY General.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Additional Physical Form Entry  

Print versionDenery, Dallas G., II. Devil Wins : A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2015 9780691163215

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