Can a lie ever be right, to protect the sick, deceive an enemy or save a life? Trumbull answers no in every case, and builds his argument from Scripture, moral philosophy and a long survey of what theologians from Augustine and Pope Innocent III to Jeremy Taylor and Liguori have said about deception and its excuses.
An uncompromising nineteenth-century treatise that still sharpens any discussion of honesty and its hard cases. Download the free EPUB.