Lying and Communication – Lying as an Anti-Communicative Act

• Authors: Wyrostkiewicz Michał
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A lie is incompatible with the objective state of affairs, meaning that it is an assertion divergent from the truth. It is an act of deliberately bringing someone into error; at its core is the offender’s free decision to express thoughts contrary to his own conviction on a given matter – the liar in fact says what is untrue not because he does not know the truth, but because someone to whom he transmits this message will accept as truth what is not. And he does so with the knowledge and intention of convincing someone that he knows the truth. However a lie is considered by some to be an ordinary means of communication, we can conclude that this is not so. There is no doubt that lying is an example of some kind of anti-communication. It is in fact an action which on the surface resembles an act of communication. Due to its nature, which is not to build up a community, but the realization of self-serving, unauthorized purposes, it does not deserve to be called a communicative action.

Keywords

EN

communication anti-communication; lies, truth; untruth; development of the; human person; social development; community

• Publisher: Faculty of Theology at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin / Chair of the Contemporary Forms of Faith Transmission
• Journal: Biuletyn Edukacji Medialnej
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 44-54

Dates

published

2014-06-30

Contributors

author

Wyrostkiewicz Michał

• Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydział Teologii, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland

Identifiers

ISSN

1733-0297