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- Title: Musavada-Virati and "Privileged Lies" (1).
- Author : Journal of Buddhist Ethics
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 183 KB
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Preamble The four components of miccha-vaca ("wrong speech") (2)--that is lies (specifically "conscious lying"), vulgar abuse, backbiting, and idle chatter--can hardly ever have hindered the average talker. However, "A liar should have a good memory" (a maxim used by Quintilian). The Cretans were famous for lying (Titus 1:12) and the Parthians were champion liars (Horace, Epistle 2.1, 112). The Old Israel was, we are told complacently, well equipped with lies, and proud of it. (3) People who are lacking independence will find lying essential. Malicious comments, too, find ready ears (Horace, Satires 1.3, 38-75). Modern "soaps" present characters of all ages lying imaginatively and with verve. Early Christians developed the virtue of truthfulness on slender authority, for so had their Jewish background. (4) Judeo-Christianity presented "false accusation" as a malady (Luke 19:8; 2 Timothy 3:3; Titus 2:3) and how to punish false witnesses preoccupied their predecessors (Deuteronomy 19:16, 18; Psalms 7:12, 35:11; Temple Scroll 61:7-11). We may compare the Vinaya's rich material on "wrong speech" with the meager Jewish halakhic (traditional normative) and sectarian material on the same subject, for if they are of equal antiquity they are quite dissimilar, and each may throw light on the other. (5) A key is to be found in "privileged lies," present in Judaism, Christianity, and even more significantly in Hinduism, but totally missing from Buddhism.
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