Brooks
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Kennedy Brooks
Professor Capella
PHI 150
8 February 2018
Journal 2
There is a time when secrecy and honesty can overlap. For instance, when a promise is
made to keep a secret, the secret is kept and so is the promise. It is not seen as dishonest when
a secret is kept, unless it puts others in harm’s way. In chapter two, Sissela Bok talks of how
secrecy can be innocent in some instances and is needed for human survival; these are the
instances in which secrecy and honesty usually overlap/relate. As far as secrecy relating to
