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Countries must make concerted efforts to respond to global crises, Sissela Bok said at a speech last night at the Kennedy School of Government...
Fortunately, there is a way out of this logical blind alley. All lies, regardless of their relationship to the truth, have one thing in common. "We must single out," writes Sissela Bok in Lying, "from the countless ways in which we blunder misinformed through life, that which is done with the intention to mislead." Lies may confuse everyone who hears them, as they are meant to, but liars know exactly what they are doing while they are doing it. In Telling Lies, Paul Ekman, a professor of psychology at the University of California medical school in San Francisco, provides...
...leaders have consistently lied to the people." Today there is an almost bored tolerance of political lying, a disgust reflected in an increasing decline in voter participation, a corroded environment in which those who elect and those who are elected both lose. Whoever eventually wins, says the philosopher Sissela Bok, invariably discovers that his "warnings and calls to common sacrifice meet with disbelief and apathy, even when cooperation is most urgently needed...
...July, Bok will be headed back to California, where he grew up. He and his wife, philosopher-ethicist Sissela Bok, will spend a year in Palo Alto as fellows at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford...
...reporter called Sissela Bok at home, pretending to be a caterer, and tricked her into informing him that her husband had been named Harvard's next president...