I just learned this cool 16th-century Jesuit trick called "mental reservation". Imagine an axe murderer comes to your friend's house and asks: is your friend at home? You can't say yes, or refuse to answer, and no would be a lie. Solution: Tell the truth, but only say part of it out loud. 1/
"Vows" is a foreign concept to us. But also: Vows do need to be aligned with "life". ----- Some Buddhist monks classify dark chocolate as a liquid so it can be consumed late in the day.
ah yes the "in Minecraft" doctrine
We usually just call that a lie of omission or allusion.
So you say "My friend is not at home" and you think to yourself "For YOU to see, that is!" Problem solved. You didn't lie, because the whole assertion is true. For Catholics, it was never permissible to lie, so the trick of mental reservation allows you to handle morally difficult cases like this 2/
Nah lying is intentionally misleading someone by saying a falsehood. Doesn't matter if your inner monologue finishes a sentence. Try deceiving somebody using only your inner monologue. You can't do it.
u listen to that history of philosophy without any gaps show?
Pascal be like, “I have a question: Is this a joke?”
A similar trick from the Mahabharata: www.lonelyphilosopher.com/the-fall-of-...
This is fantastic. Like selective privacy, to curate what you share online? — you only make public what you choose.