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  • Sissela Bok

    Swedish-American philosopher

    Sissela Bok (born Myrdal; 2 December 1934) is a Swedish-born American philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She is considered one of the premier American women moral philosophers of the latter part of the 20th century.

    Biography

    Bok received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from George Washington University in 1957 and 1958, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1970. She worked at Simmons University (1971–72), the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (1975–82), Brandeis University (1985–92), and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health (1993–2022).

    Bok is married to Derek Bok, former president (1971–1991, interim 2006–2007) of Harvard. Her daughter, Hilary Bok, is also a philosopher. Her brother, Jan Myrdal, was a political writer and journalist.

    Bok was awarded the Orwell Award in 1978 for Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life.

    Bok was awarded the Courage of Conscience award on 24 April 1991 "for her contributions to peacemaking strategies in the tradition of her mother."

    Books

    • Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life (Pantheon Books, 1978; Vintage paperback editions, 1979, 1989, 1999).
    • Secrets: on the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (Pantheon Books, 1982; Vintage paperback editions, 1984, 1989).
    • A Strategy for Peace: Human Values and the Threat of War (Pantheon Books, 1989; Vintage paperback edition, 1990).
    • Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir (Addison-Wesley, 1991; paperback edition 1992).
    • Common Values (University of Missouri Press, 1995; paperback edition 2002).
    • Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment (Perseus, 1998; paperback edition 1999).
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    Wq/ha/Sissela Bok

    Sissela Bok(an haife shi Myrdal; 2 Disamba 1934) ɗan Ba’amurke ɗan Falsafa ne kuma masanin ɗabi'a, 'yar waɗanda suka ci lambar yabo ta Nobel:Gunnar Myrdal wanda ya lashe lambar yabo ta tattalin arziƙi tare da Friedrich Hayek a 1974, da Alva Myrdal wanda ya lashe kyautar zaman lafiya ta Nobel a 1982.Ana la'akari da ita ɗaya daga cikin manyan masana falsafar ɗabi'a na matan Amurka na ƙarshen ƙarni na 20.

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    • Mugun nufi, ya dage, lalata da kuma ƙasƙantar da ba kawai manufar da aka yi su ba, har ma da mutanen da suka karkata.Cin nasara da son yin amfani da irin wannan hanya ya fi wahala idan mutum ya yi niyyar gyara zaluncin da aka yi a baya.
    • Gaba, Gandhi: Tarihin Rayuwa (1993)
    • Duk abin da ya shafi ɗan adam, amana ita ce yanayin da yake bunƙasa.
    • Sa’ad da muka ɗauki alƙawari don yaudarar wasu da gangan, muna isar da saƙon da ke nufin a ɓatar da su, da nufin sa su gaskata abin da mu kanmu ba mu yi imani da shi ba.Za mu iya yin hakan ta hanyar ishara, ta hanyar ɓarna, ta hanyar aiki ko rashin aiki, ko da ta wurin shiru.
    • Amincewa da mutunci albarkatu ne masu tamani, cikin sauƙin almubazzaranci, da wuya a samu.Za su iya bunƙasa ne kawai a kan tushen mutunta gaskiya.
    • Matsayin da mutum ya ba da gaskiya zai kasance koyaushe a cikin la’akari da irin mutumin da yake so ya zama—yadda mutum yake so ya bi, ba kawai wasu mutane ba, amma kansa.
    • Duk wani wayar da kan yadda ake yada karya dole ne ya haifar da hankali ga gaskiyar cewa yawancin karyar da aka yi imani da cewa farar ce ba lallai ba ne idan ba a so ba.
    • Yi aiki da iyakar iyakar da za ku iya a lokaci guda wanda zai zama doka ta duniya.
    • Gaskiya daga kwararrun likitocin kiwon lafiya sun fi dacewa ga marasa lafiya fiye da kusan duk abin da suke fuskanta lokacin rashin lafiya.

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    Sissela Bok

    Sissela Bok (born Myrdal; 2 December 1934) is a Swedish-born American philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She is considered one of the premier American women moral philosophers of the latter part of the 20th century.

    Quotes

    • Evil means, he insisted, corrupt and degrade not only the purposes for which they are undertaken but also the persons who stoop to such means. Overcoming the urge to resort to such means is hardest when one aims to rectify past injustices. It is because ‘hate the sin and not the sinner’ is a precept so rarely practiced that the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
      • Forward, Gandhi: An Autobiography (1993)

    Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life (1978)

    • Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
    • When we undertake to deceive others intentionally, we communicate messages meant to mislead them, meant to make them believe what we ourselves do not believe. We can do so through gesture, through disguise, by means of action or inaction, even through silence.
    • Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.
    • The role that one assigns to truthfulness will always remain central in considering what kind of person one wants to be—how one wishes to treat, not only other people, but oneself.
    • Any awareness of how lies spread must generate a real sensitivity to the fact that most lies believed to be white are unnecessary if not downright undesirable.
    • Act only on the maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
    • Honesty from health professionals matters more to patients than almost everything else that they experience when ill.

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    Other names
    Myrdal, Sissela (maiden)
    Birthdate
    1934-12-02
    Gender
    female
    Nationality
    Sweden
    USA
    Birthplace
    Stockholm, Sweden
    Education
    Harvard University (Ph.D.)
    George Washington University (BA|MA)
    Occupations
    philosopher
    ethicist
    professor
    memoirist
    scholar
    Relationships
    Bok, Derek (husband)
    Bok, Hilary (daughter)
    Myrdal, Alva (mother)
    Myrdal, Gunnar (father)
    Myrdal, Jan (brother)
    Organizations
    American Academy of Political and Social Science
    American Philosophical Society
    Harvard University
    Awards and honors
    George Orwell Award (1978|Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life)
    Short biography
    Sissela Bok, née Myrdal, is the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal (Economics) and Alva Myrdal (Peace). She was born in Sweden and attended the Sorbonne in Paris before earning her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from George Washington University, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University. She was a professor of philosophy at Brandeis University before teaching ethics at Harvard’s Medical School and Kennedy School of Government. She then became a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Population and Development Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her writings explore the psychology and ethics of lying, the consequences of deception, and the perils of keeping secrets. Her books include Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life (1978), considered one of the seminal books in philosophy of the 20th century, and A Strategy for Peace for Peace: Human Values and the Threat of War (1989). In 1955, she married Derek Bok, now former president of Harvard, with whom she has three children. Sissela Bok received the Courage of Conscience Award in 1991 for her "contributions to peacemaking strategies in the tradition of her mother." Her memoir of her mother was published that
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