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H. Clay Trumbull. A Lie Never Justifiable: A Study in Ethics
A Lie Never Justifiable: A Study in Ethics
Table of Contents
PREFACE
H. CLAY TRUMBULL. PHILADELPHIA,
I. A QUESTION OF THE AGES
II. ETHNIC CONCEPTIONS
III. BIBLE TEACHINGS
IV. DEFINITIONS
V. THE PLEA OF "NECESSITY."
VI. CENTURIES OF DISCUSSION
VII. THE GIST OF THE MATTER
INDEXES. TOPICAL INDEX. SCRIPTURAL INDEX. I
A QUESTION OF THE AGES
II
ETHNIC CONCEPTIONS
III
BIBLE TEACHINGS
IV
DEFINITIONS
V
THE PLEA OF "NECESSITY."
VI
CENTURIES OF DISCUSSION
VII
THE GIST OF THE MATTER
TOPICAL INDEX
SCRIPTURAL INDEX
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H. Clay Trumbull
Published by Good Press, 2019
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[Footnote 1: Joseph Roberts, in his Oriental Illustrations, p. 580.]
The Mahabharata is one of the great epics of ancient India. It contains a history of a war between two rival families, or peoples, and its text includes teachings with reference to "everything that it concerned a cultivated Hindoo to know." The heroes in this recorded war, between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, are in the habit of lying without stint; yet there is evidence that they recognized the sin of lying even to an enemy in time of war, and when a decisive advantage might be gained by it. At a point in the combat when Yudhishthira, a leader of the Pandavas, was in extremity in his battling with Drona, a leader of the Kauravas, the divine Krishna told Yudhishthira that, if he would tell Drona (for in these mythical contests the combatants were usually within speaking distance of each other) that his loved "son Aswatthanea was dead, the old warrior would immediately lay down his arms and become an easy prey." But Yudhishthira "had never been known to tell a falsehood," and in this instance he "utterly refused to tell a lie, even to secure the death of so powerful an enemy." [1] Although it came about that Drona was, as a matter of fact, defeated by treachery, the sin of lying, even in time of war, and to an enemy, is clearly brought out as a recognized principle of both theory and action among the ancient Hindoos.
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