La mentira nociva según Miguel Catalán.:

Abstract

From some years ago I have been reading -and analyzing- with great
interest the volumes of the history and forms of lies and deceit from all
possible humanistic aspects that Professor Miguel Catalán has worked so
rigorously throughout his life, in order to analyze, lastly, the ethics applied
to social ordering. In the pages published in the volumes of this extensive
work I have learned that every great lie needs a small truth to support it
(from the first to the last volume of Pseudology confirm this need), I have
learned that there are white lies, which are not precisely the religious ones,
that lead to the creativity of better worlds, even through the loser’s tantrum
or the marginal protest of from the one who is unheard on the stage, in the
platform; we have seen a beautiful example in the creation of utopia as
a political protest and as a literary genre; I have learned that someone is
truthful when he is paternal with his children, but that someone enters the
paths of the interested lie when this one is paternalistic with the “adults”
whom he tries to deceive and subdue. Through out all these volumes we
have come across religious paternalisms, political paternalisms, economic
and public paternalisms, we have studied them forn myths, traditions,
dictatorial policies, the most bleeding populisms, covering all the humanistic
aspects of man and all the social sciences of both East and West.
Today I want to reflect in a little more detail on the harmful lie. Pseudology
XI (La mentira nociva, Seudología XI), being the first posthumous
book by Professor Miguel Catalán, although, previously, he had already
written two other volumes that the author wanted to leave as a closure of
the whole serie of Pseudology. That is why I want to be noted that that, as I write these lines, La Traición, (Pseudology XII) has just been published,
the last volume published by Editorial Verbum this year, and the last volume
that will study about the beneficial lie will be published shortly, as we
have learned through his widow, María Picazo, a faithful collaborator in
this immense work. his study pseudologyc will end this wonderful story of
the humankind, who has won so many awards, and which I have already
mentioned on other occasions: the Juan Gil-Albert and Alfons El Magnànim
Essay Awards, the Juan Andrés Essay and Research Award, as well as
the of the Valencian Criticism. We will have the opportunity to talk about of
the new volumes in the future, so, as I pointed out I will dedícate this small
estudy to the harmful lie. Pseudology XI.