Secrets

On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation

Author: Sissela Bok Series: Vintage

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Provides a critical analysis of the ethical issues of individual secrecy in terms of family, friends, and career, discusses collective practices of concealment, and interprets the ethics and motivations of revelation.

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The author of Lying shows how the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in our careers or private lives take us to the heart of the critical questions of private and public morality.

About the Author

SISSELA BOKis a senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Previously, she was a professor of philosophy at Brandeis Univeristy. She is the author of Lying- Moral Choice in Private and Public Life; Secrets- On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation; A Strategy for Peace- Human Values and the Threat of War; Alva Myrdal- A Daughter's Memoir; Mayhem- Violence as Public Entertainment; Common Values; and Exploring Happiness- From Aristotle to Brain Science. A former member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Bok is a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.