According to a Kantian conception truthfulness is characterised as a requirement of respect for the agency of another. In lying we manipulate the other’s rational capacities to achieve ends we know or fear they may not share. This is paradigmatically a failure of respect. In this paper we argue that the importance of truthfulness also lies in significant part in the ways in which it supports our agential need to make sense of the world, other people, and ourselves. Since sense-making is something we do together, and that we can support or undermine, it generates norms of interaction that constitute a further, distinct, mode of recognition and respect for another’s agency. But the requirements of truthfulness and support for sense-making sometimes conflict. Through a series of cases, we analyze why and when a rigid insistence on truthfulness is disrespectful of the other and undermining of their agency.

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诚实和有意义：尊重能动性的两种模式

根据康德的观念，诚实的特征是尊重他人代理的要求。通过说谎，我们操纵了对方的理性能力，以达到我们知道或担心他们可能无法分享的目的。这是典型的尊重失败。在本文中，我们认为，诚实的重要性在很大程度上还在于它支持我们理解世界、他人和我们自己的代理需求。由于意义建构是我们一起做的事情，并且我们可以支持或破坏它，所以它产生了互动规范，构成了对他人机构的进一步的、独特的认可和尊重模式。但真实性的要求和支持意义建构有时会发生冲突。通过一系列案例，我们分析了为什么以及何时严格坚持诚实是对他人的不尊重和破坏他们的能动性。