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De mendacio and Contra mendacium forbid lying even in a religious cause as a public honesty rule

De mendacio and Contra mendacium, as later transmitted, forbid lying even when the cause is conversion or the trapping of heretics. In the causal graph this event weakens Judicial independence erosion (court capture), a driver that strengthens Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score — an improving welfare path.

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De mendacio and Contra mendacium, as later transmitted, forbid lying even when the cause is conversion or the trapping of heretics. The instrument is that honesty rule. It sits in tension with a coercive Donatist policy stored elsewhere. Later Jesuit-and-Protestant casuistry is reception. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He wrote against lying to convert or to trap. Later casuists debated him. He did not police every forum. High on the texts.

Context

Jerome's circle and unnamed monks who would lie to baptise are the polemical neighbourhood. Sharing that debate is required. Retractationes will still stand by a hard line on lies. Confessions' own narrative art is not stored here as a lie-licence. The setting of De mendacio and Contra mendacium forbid lying even in a religious cause as a public honesty rule is the public file around 0395-06-01. Driver justice-judicial-independence-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Letter 93 remains a coercion file, not a licence to lie. Mixed effects of De mendacio and Contra mendacium forbid lying even in a religious cause as a public honesty rule are separate paths.

Why it matters

Improving path from De mendacio and Contra mendacium forbid lying even in a religious cause as a public honesty rule on 0395-06-01. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Augustine Of Hippo

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    He wrote against lying to convert or to trap. Later casuists debated him. He did not police every forum. High on the texts.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — AugustineInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, original sin / graceStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, lying neighbourhood at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ (opens in a new tab) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, De mendacio neighbourhood at https://iep.utm.edu/augustin/ (opens in a new tab) (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, lying neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, De mendacio neighbourhood (https://iep.utm.edu/augustin/ (opens in a new tab); Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Established: a sourced public record of De mendacio and Contra mendacium forbid lying even in a religious cause as a public honesty rule under 0395-06-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of De mendacio and Contra mendacium forbid lying even in a religious cause as a public honesty rule under 0395-06-01.

Shared responsibility is part of De mendacio and Contra mendacium forbid lying even in a religious cause as a public honesty rule. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0395-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAugustine Of Hippo
  2. contributed toFactDe mendacio and Contra mendacium forbid lying even in a religious cause as a public honesty rule
  3. weakensDriverJudicial independence erosion (court capture)
  4. strengthensIndicatorRule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

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Factrail. (2026). De mendacio and Contra mendacium forbid lying even in a religious cause as a public honesty rule. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/au-on-lying

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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