 | Alan Donagan - 1977 - 294 Seiten
...lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences; you are to tell the truth. Besides, you are not sure...believe it has been frequently practised on myself. 28 Of the casuistical problems about veracity, many, like the ancient problem of whether you may lie... | |
 | Alan Donagan - 1977 - 294 Seiten
...lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences; you are to tell the truth. Besides, you are not sure...because I believe it has been frequently practised on myself.28 Of the casuistical problems about veracity, many, like the ancient problem of whether you... | |
 | Albert R. Jonsen - 2000 - 169 Seiten
...of alarming him. 'You have no business with consequences,' says he, 'you are to tell the truth. ... Of all lying, I have the greatest abhorrence of this, because I believe it has been frequently practiced on myself'."14 The complaint of that prestigious patient does not impress Dr. Percival. Reverend... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2001 - 340 Seiten
...him,' insisted Samuel Johnson, ever the Christian rigorist: You have no business with consequences: you are to tell the truth. Besides, you are not sure...believe it has been frequently practised on myself. 66 Johnson's stringency was largely upheld in Thomas Gisborne's An Enquiry into the Duties of Men in... | |
 | Jennifer C. Jackson - 2001 - 202 Seiten
...sick man for fear of alarming him. You have no business in consequences ....You are to tell the truth ....of all lying I have the greatest abhorrence of this because I believe it has frequently been practiced on myself. Samuel Johnson Thurstan Brewin urges that doctors and nurses need... | |
 | Cecil Helman - 2003 - 176 Seiten
...alarming him. You have no business with consequences; you are to tell the truth. Besides you may not be sure what effect your telling him that he is in danger...believe it has been frequently practised on myself. By contrast, Rachel Clark, in her poignant autobiographical piece Inside Out and Upside Down, describes... | |
 | Brian S. Carter, Marcia Levetown - 2004 - 422 Seiten
...lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences; you are to tell the truth. Besides, you are not sure what effects your telling him that he is in danger may have" (Donagan 1979). Current thinking supports the... | |
 | Robert M. Veatch - 2004 - 340 Seiten
...business with consequences, you are to tell the truth. Besides' (he goes on. very much in Kant's spirit), 'you are not sure what effect your telling him that he is in danger may have'" (Cabot 1938. p. 249). Now the first half of this Johnson quote would seem to be "in Kant's spirit"... | |
 | 1904 - 424 Seiten
...physician in such a dilemma would do well to bear in mind the next sentence of Johnson's ipse dixit: "You are not sure what effect your telling him that...his distemper to a crisis, and that may cure him." Jonathan Dymond, as strict as any one in his morality, threw a gleam of stern humor into the discussion:... | |
 | Roy Fontaine - 1850 - 346 Seiten
...You have no business with con- impressions. A physician is always supposed to have formed sequences : you are to tell the truth. Besides, you are not sure what effect your telling him that he is in danzer may have. It may bring his distemper to a crisis, and that may curehim. Of all lying I have... | |
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But I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man, for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences ; you are to tell the truth. Besides, you are not sure what effect your telling him that he is in danger may have. It may bring... 
