LOVE AND LIES

A provocative and unsettling look at the nature of love and deception Is it possible to love well without lying? At least since Socr ates's discourse on love in Plato's Symposium, philosophers have argued that love can lead us to the truth--about ourselves and the ones we love. But in the practical experience of erotic love--and perhaps especially in marriage--we find that love and lies often w ork hand in hand, and that it may be difficult to sustain long-term romantic love without deception, both of oneself and of others.D rawing on...[Read more]