Tyler is pretty open about the idea that you should lie to people on utilitarian grounds (Straussian, "read the room"). Perhaps he was just lying about being on team transitory for social desirability reasons.
Tyler is pretty open about the idea that you should lie to people on utilitarian grounds (Straussian, "read the room"). Perhaps he was just lying about being on team transitory for social desirability reasons.
It's an idea already explicit in Plato (Republic, 389b-c):
But further we must surely prize truth most highly. For if we were right in what we were just saying and falsehood is in very deed useless to gods, but to men useful as a remedy or form of medicine, it is obvious that such a thing must be assigned to physicians and laymen should have nothing to do with it. The rulers then of the city may, if anybody, fitly lie on account of enemies or citizens for the benefit of the state; no others may have anything to do with it, but for a layman to lie to rulers of that kind we shall affirm to be as great a sin, nay a greater, than it is for a patient not to tell physician or an athlete his trainer the truth about his bodily condition, or for a man to deceive the pilot about the ship and the sailors as to the real condition of himself or a fellow-sailor, and how they fare.
Tyler is pretty open about the idea that you should lie to people on utilitarian grounds (Straussian, "read the room"). Perhaps he was just lying about being on team transitory for social desirability reasons.
It's an idea already explicit in Plato (Republic, 389b-c):
But further we must surely prize truth most highly. For if we were right in what we were just saying and falsehood is in very deed useless to gods, but to men useful as a remedy or form of medicine, it is obvious that such a thing must be assigned to physicians and laymen should have nothing to do with it. The rulers then of the city may, if anybody, fitly lie on account of enemies or citizens for the benefit of the state; no others may have anything to do with it, but for a layman to lie to rulers of that kind we shall affirm to be as great a sin, nay a greater, than it is for a patient not to tell physician or an athlete his trainer the truth about his bodily condition, or for a man to deceive the pilot about the ship and the sailors as to the real condition of himself or a fellow-sailor, and how they fare.