It has been traditionally thought that, from a moral point of view, it is worse to lie than to deceive without saying something one believes to be false. And it has been thought that this is so regardless of the speaker’s intentions or the kind of hearer addressed. In this paper, this view is challenged with a battery of reasons. It is argued that, when the speaker’s intentions are perverse, it can be more morally blameworthy to deceive the hearer by means of saying a truth than by lying.
Grimaltos, T. (2017). La mentida, l'engany i la seua valoració moral. Una defensa (parcial) de la mentida. Comprendre, 19/1, 5-18.
