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Kantian ethics prohibits lying even to a murderer seeking the lives of one's children.
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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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The retrieved sources reference Kantian absolutism against lying and his essay on the supposed right to lie, but do not provide full textual proof detailing the murderer-at-the-door scenario involving children.

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Lies and the Murderer Next Door
2017 · cited by 0
This chapter considers some issues about our individual duties of sincerity and promissory fidelity, with particular emphasis on the role the stricture on lying plays in maintaining reliable channels of communication between moral agents. It defends a qualified absolutism about lying that distinguishes the wrong of the lie from the wrong involved in deception (when it is wrong). In particular, it examines Immanuel Kant's absolutism about lying, building upon the themes Kant adduces in the opening passage of the selection from the Lectures on Ethics. It also explores the problem of the Murderer at the Door and connects it to other issues about our moral relations with wrongdoers and the process of their moral evolution. Finally, it looks at the active, affimative misrepresentation that one is telling the truth rather than operating in a suspended context and relates it to the basic conditions of interpersonal moral agency.
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Kant on Lies, Candour and Reticence
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Kant on Lies, Candour and Reticence | Kantian Review | Cambridge Core Logo for Cambridge Core from Cambridge University Press. Click to return to homepage. Search Logo for Cambridge Core from Cambridge University Press. Click to return to homepage. --- Institution Login Search Hostname: page-component-76d6cb85b7-f97m6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-07-17T17:55:28.177Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false - English - Français # Kant on Lies, Candour and Reticence Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2011 James Edwin Mahon Show author details Article contents - Extract - References Get access Share Cite Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window] ## Extract Like several prominent moral philosophers before him, such as St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas, Kant held that it is never morally permissible to tell a lie. Although a great deal has been written on why and how he argued for this conclusion, comparatively little has been written on what, precisely, Kant considered a lie to be, and on how he differentiated between being truthful and being candid, between telling a lie and being reticent, and between telling a lie and other
Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie
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Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie Logo for Cambridge Core from Cambridge University Press. Click to return to homepage. Search Logo for Cambridge Core from Cambridge University Press. Click to return to homepage. --- Institution Login Search - Back to search results Cited by 3 Cite Share Show more authors You may already have access via personal or institutional login Check access Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Select format Digital US$32.99 Hardback Available Paperback Available Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication date: 18 July 2025 28 August 2025 ISBN: 9781108992435 9781108834216 9781108994699 Dimensions: (229 x 152 mm) Weight & Pages: 0.504kg, 240 Pages Dimensions: (229 x 152 mm) Weight & Pages: 238 Pages Subjects: Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Philosophy You may already have access via personal or institutional login Check access Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Selected: Digital Add to cart View cart Buy from Cambridge.org Subjects: Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Philosophy Information Contents Metrics Accessibility ### Book description In his 1797 essay 'On a Supposed
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  1. Lies and the Murderer Next Doorpeer-reviewedno side taken
  2. Kant on Lies, Candour and Reticencereferencesame source L18no side taken
  3. Kant and the Supposed Right to Liereferencesame source L18no side taken
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