Liars Share With Those They Deceive The

While All Deception Requires Secrecy, All Secrecy Is Not Meant To Deceive.

We Are All, In A Sense, Experts On Secrecy. From Earliest Childhood We Feel Its Mystery And Attraction. We Know Both The Power It Confers And The Burden It Imposes. We Learn How It Can Delight, Give Breathing Space And Protect.

Three Sorts Of Goods, Aristotle Specified, Contribute To Happiness: Goods Of The Soul, Including Moral And Intellectual Virtues And Education; Bodily Goods, Such As Strength, Good Health, Beauty, And Sound Senses; And External Goods, Such As Wealth, Friends, Good Birth, Good Children, Good Heredity, Good Reputation And The Like.

Confidentiality Refers To The Boundaries Surrounding Shared Secrets And To The Process Of Guarding These Boundaries. While Confidentiality Protects Much That Is Not In Fact Secret, Personal Secrets Lie At Its Core. The Innermost, The Vulnerable, Often The Shameful: These Aspects Of Self-disclosure Help Explain Why One Name For Professional Confidentiality Has Been "the Professional Secret." Such Secrecy Is Sometimes Mistakenly Confused With Privacy; Yet It Can Concern Many Matters In No Way Private, But That Someone Wishes To Keep From The Knowledge Of Third Parties.

Whatever Matters To Human Beings, Trust Is The Atmosphere In Which It Thrives.