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Fraud: The World of Ona'ah

Fraud: The World of Ona'ah

Schott, Nils F.
Atlan, Henri

Hardcover

Series: Cultural Memory in the Present

PhilosophyJudaism

ISBN10: 0804777098
ISBN13: 9780804777094
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Aug 21 2013
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

We can calculate financial fraud, but how do we measure bad faith? How can we evaluate the words of the pharmaceutical industry or of eco-scientific ideologies, or the subtle deception found in political scheming? Henri Atlan sheds light on these questions through the concept of ona'ah, which in Hebrew refers to both fraud in financial transactions and the verbal injury inflicted by speech. The world of ona'ah is a world of an in-between, where the impossible purity of absolute Platonic truth gives way to a more relative notion--the near-theft, the quasi-lie. Today it seems that no discourse is safe from fraudulent excesses, be they intentional or no. As both philosopher and biologist, Atlan works on several registers. He forges links between the Talmud, the Kabbalah, and the big questions of our time, multiplying the bridges between science, philosophy, and current ethical dilemmas. In a context of financial and moral crises that appear to be weakening our democracies, Henri Atlan's work allows us to rethink the status of fraud in the contemporary world.

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