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...idealizing Americans and American history you and Author Sissela Bok might just be adding one more deceit to all the others...
...disturbed by the suggestion, attributed to Sissela Bok, that only those lies "approved in advance by the general public" be permitted (e.g., unmarked police cars). Has not that complex weblike underpinning, as well as the resultant American cynicism, already clearly been approved in advance by that same amorphous mass, the general public...
Taught in alternate years by the Reiser-Dyck team, or Sissela Bok, lecturer on Medical Ethics, "Ethics in Medicine" covers the same material as Hum 130, but includes "ethics rounds" in addition to the class material. Held every other week at the Children's Hospital, these rounds bring students in contact with patients through informal groups led by nurses, doctors, or the students themselves...
...permissible to tell a lie? Never, according to Augustine and Kant. Machiavelli approved lying for princes, Nietzsche for the exceptional hero-the Superman. Most other philosophers, and ordinary folk, are less certain, allowing some lies, but not others. After some 2,500 years of moral speculation, says Philosopher Sissela Bok, mankind is still trying to work out ground rules for acceptable lying...
...Sissela Bok, lecturer on medical ethics at the Medical School, will speak about "the ethical dimensions of truthfulness and lying" in the four lectures she will deliver March 1, 2, 8 and 9 to benefit the Radcliffe Seminars Grant-In-Aid fund...