It was Plato who first observed that human beings naturally integrate the true, the good and the beautiful. We still observe this in our own lives when we are allowed to do so. Yet, the true (as manifested in the ideologies of scientism and economism) has been elevated in our work and professional lives to a position where 'evidence' and 'cost effectiveness' trumps all other considerations. The result is that we feel brutalised and not 'fully human'.

Are the moral proscriptions against lying overrated?

This is a collection of the four best Wikibooks chapters produced by students on the UCL BASc Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2018-19 module, and includes the instructions and assessment rubric for the course.

This Wikibooks chapter was produced as part of the 2018-19 Issues in Interdisciplinarity module on the UCL BASc's Approaches to Knowledge module. It is an example of student-generated work from the course. The full Wikibooks chapter can be found at this location: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Issues_in_Interdisciplinarity_2018-19/Truth_in_the_Diagnosis_of_Depression.