LEADER 04337nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910459437603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-66565-0 010 $a9786612665653 010 $a1-4008-2514-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825141 035 $a(CKB)2670000000036283 035 $a(EBL)617369 035 $a(OCoLC)699474638 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001483087 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12641352 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001483087 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11422948 035 $a(PQKB)10365286 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000443610 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11315649 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443610 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10455210 035 $a(PQKB)10783558 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617369 035 $a(OCoLC)748362424 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36082 035 $a(DE-B1597)446343 035 $a(OCoLC)979757458 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825141 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617369 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10400782 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL266565 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000036283 100 $a20020212d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTruth & truthfulness$b[electronic resource] $ean essay in genealogy /$fBernard Williams 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-10276-7 311 $a0-691-11791-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-320) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $t1. The Problem -- $t2. Genealogy -- $t3. The State of Nature: A Rough Guide -- $t4. Truth, Assertion, and Belief -- $t5. Sincerity: Lying and Other Styles of Deceit -- $t6. Accuracy: A Sense of Reality -- $t7. What Was Wrong with Minos? -- $t8. From Sincerity to Authenticity -- $t9. Truthfulness, Liberalism, and Critique -- $t10. Making Sense -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. Modern culture exhibits two attitudes toward truth: suspicion of being deceived (no one wants to be fooled) and skepticism that objective truth exists at all (no one wants to be naive). This tension between a demand for truthfulness and the doubt that there is any truth to be found is not an abstract paradox. It has political consequences and signals a danger that our intellectual activities, particularly in the humanities, may tear themselves to pieces. Williams's approach, in the tradition of Nietzsche's genealogy, blends philosophy, history, and a fictional account of how the human concern with truth might have arisen. Without denying that we should worry about the contingency of much that we take for granted, he defends truth as an intellectual objective and a cultural value. He identifies two basic virtues of truth, Accuracy and Sincerity, the first of which aims at finding out the truth and the second at telling it. He describes different psychological and social forms that these virtues have taken and asks what ideas can make best sense of them today. Truth and Truthfulness presents a powerful challenge to the fashionable belief that truth has no value, but equally to the traditional faith that its value guarantees itself. Bernard Williams shows us that when we lose a sense of the value of truth, we lose a lot both politically and personally, and may well lose everything. 606 $aTruth 606 $aTruthfulness and falsehood 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTruth. 615 0$aTruthfulness and falsehood. 676 $a121 700 $aWilliams$b Bernard Arthur Owen$0129032 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459437603321 996 $aTruth & truthfulness$92452225 997 $aUNINA