Truth and Governance -

Truth and Governance

Religious and Secular Views
Buch | Softcover
322 Seiten
2021
Brookings Institution (Verlag)
978-0-8157-3930-2 (ISBN)
64,80 inkl. MwSt
This book will open readers' eyes to the variety of possible approaches to the relationship between truth and governance. Readers will find views they thought self-evident challenged, and will come away with a greater understanding of the importance of truth and truth-telling and of how to counter deliberate deception.
Taking the long view of conflicts between truth and political powerWhat role does truth play in government? In context of recent political discourse around the globe—and especially in the United States—it is easy to believe that truth, in the form of indisputable facts, is a matter of debate.

But it's also important to remember that since ancient times, every religious and philosophical tradition has wrestled with this question. In this volume, scholars representing ten traditions—Western and Eastern, religious and secular—address the nature of truth and its role in government. Among the questions they address: When is deception permissible, or even a good thing? What remedies are necessary and useful when governments fail in their responsibilities to be truthful?

The authors consider the relationship between truth and governance in democracies, but also in non-democratic regimes. Although democracy is distinctive in requiring truth as a fundamental basis for governing, non-democratic forms of government also cannot do without truth entirely. If ministers cannot give candid advice to rulers, the government's policies are likely to proceed on false premises and therefore fail. If rulers do not speak truthfully to their people, trust will erode.

Each author in this book addresses a common set of issues: the nature of truth; the morality of truth-telling; the nature of government, which shapes each tradition's understanding of the relationship between governance and truth; the legitimacy and limits of regulating speech; and remedies when truth becomes divorced from governance.

Truth and Governance will open readers' eyes to the variety of possible approaches to the relationship between truth and governance. Readers will find views they thought self-evident challenged and will come away with a greater understanding of the importance of truth and truth-telling, and of how to counter deliberate deception.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction, William A. Galston and Tom G. Palmer

Hinduism, Nimai M. Mehta, Karti Sandilya, and Bhakti Patil

Buddhism, Karma Lekshe Tsomo

Judaism, Suzanne Last Stone

Christianity, Craig Hovey

Islam, Sohail H. Hashmi

Confucianism, Sungmoon Kim

Natural Law, Christopher Tollefsen

Liberalism, Aaron J. Ancell

Feminism, Emma Saunders-Hastings

Political Realism, Elizabeth Markovits

Comparing the Traditions, William A. Galston

Selected and Annotated Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 223 mm
Gewicht 463 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-8157-3930-3 / 0815739303
ISBN-13 978-0-8157-3930-2 / 9780815739302
Zustand Neuware
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