La mentira nociva según Miguel Catalánla utilidad de la mentira desde la ética aplicada:una historia de la seudología.

Resumo

From some years ago I have been reading -and analyzing- with great interest the volumes of the history and forms of lies and deceit from all possible humanistic aspects that Professor Miguel Catalán has worked so rigorously throughout his life, in order to analyze, lastly, the ethics applied to social ordering. In the pages published in the volumes of this extensive work I have learned that every great lie needs a small truth to support it (from the first to the last volume of Pseudology confirm this need), I have learned that there are white lies, which are not precisely the religious ones, that lead to the creativity of better worlds, even through the loser’s tantrum or the marginal protest of from the one who is unheard on the stage, in the platform; we have seen a beautiful example in the creation of utopia as a political protest and as a literary genre; I have learned that someone is truthful when he is paternal with his children, but that someone enters the paths of the interested lie when this one is paternalistic with the “adults” whom he tries to deceive and subdue. Through out all these volumes we have come across religious paternalisms, political paternalisms, economic and public paternalisms, we have studied them forn myths, traditions, dictatorial policies, the most bleeding populisms, covering all the humanistic aspects of man and all the social sciences of both East and West. Today I want to reflect in a little more detail on the harmful lie. Pseudology XI (La mentira nociva, Seudología XI), being the first posthumous book by Professor Miguel Catalán, although, previously, he had already written two other volumes that the author wanted to leave as a closure of the whole serie of Pseudology. That is why I want to be noted that that, as I write these lines, La Traición, (Pseudology XII) has just been published the last volume published by Editorial Verbum this year, and the last volu-me that will study about the beneficial lie will be published shortly, as we have learned through his widow, María Picazo, a faithful collaborator in this immense work. his study pseudologyc will end this wonderful story of the humankind, who has won so many awards, and which I have already mentioned on other occasions: the Juan Gil-Albert and Alfons El Magnà-nim Essay Awards, the Juan Andrés Essay and Research Award, as well as the of the Valencian Criticism. We will have the opportunity to talk about of the new volumes in the future, so, as I pointed out I will dedícate this small estudy to the harmful lie. Pseudology XI.