Chaucer's Pardoner's Beneficent LIe
- Author / Editor
- Bauschatz, Paul C.
Chaucer's Pardoner's Beneficent LIe
- Published
- Assays 2 (1983): 19-43.
- Description
- Matches Augustine's "("De mendacio") moral distinctions among kinds of utterance with Anselm's logical distinctions among kinds of predication; discovers that Augustine refuses to recognize the possibility of "beneficent lying." Argues that Chaucer includes the "beneficent lie" in PardT to reveal that "all language is a trap."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.