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defines honesty as "the quality of being honest." Honest is, in turn, defined as "Free of deceit; truthful and sincere...Morally correct or virtuous...(attributive) Fairly earned, especially through hard work...(of an action) done with good intentions even if unsuccessful or misguided...(attributive)
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iving within the truth has more than a mere existential dimension (returning humanity to its inherent nature), or a noetic dimension (revealing reality as it is), or a moral dimension (setting an example for others). It also has an unambiguous political dimension. If the main pillar of the system is
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thought that honesty was revolutionary: “No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity.... it is only needful that each individual should say what he really feels or thinks, or at least that he should not say what he does not think.”
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Van Lange, Paul A.M.; Kuhlman, D. Michael (1994). "Social value orientations and impressions of partner's honesty and intelligence: A test of the might versus morality effect".
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Dahlsgaard, Katherine; Peterson, Christopher; Seligman, Martin E.P. (2005). "Shared Virtue: The Convergence of Valued Human Strengths Across Culture and History".
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of others, either without having been asked their opinion, or having been asked in a circumstance where the response would be trivial. This concern manifests in
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Hilbig, Benjamin E.; Zettler, Ingo (2009). "Pillars of cooperation: Honesty–Humility, social value orientations, and economic behavior".
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described honesty as an attribute people leave behind when he wrote that "no legacy is so rich as honesty" in act 3, scene 5 of "
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Someone who goes out of their way to tell possibly unwelcome truths extends honesty into the region of candor or frankness. The
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Others noted, however, that "too much honesty might be seen as undisciplined openness". For example, individuals may be
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Schluter, Dolph; Price, Trevor (1993). "Honesty, Perception and Population Divergence in Sexually Selected Traits".
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Rogers, Carl R. (1964). "Toward a modern approach to values: The valuing process in the mature person".
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defines honesty as "fairness and straightforwardness of conduct" or "adherence to the facts".
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living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living the truth.
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Honesty is valued in many ethnic and religious cultures. "Honesty is the best policy" is a
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argued that all religion ultimately reduces to ethics and all ethics reduces to honesty (
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The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1. General Correspondence. 1651–1827
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as being "too honest" if they honestly express the negative
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engaged in a challenging sort of frankness like this called
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Index

Frankness
Honesty (disambiguation)

Diogenes
J. H. W. Tischbein
moral character
virtuous
integrity
truthfulness
earnestness
loyal
fair
sincere
reputability
trustworthiness
accountability
dependability
conscientiousness
Cynics
parrhêsia

Taytay Church
proverb
Edwin Sandys
wisdom
Thomas Jefferson
Nathaniel Macon
Honesty Day
United States
William Shakespeare

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