诚实作为一种优良品格,在道德上历来是备受推崇的。但道德评价与历史评价常常相互背离:当道德对诚实给予高度肯定的时候,它从政治或经济方面得到的回应有时恰好是否定性的。伽利略捍卫、宣传“日心说”,塞尔维特提出“血液循环说”,都是诚实的表现,他们也因了这种深刻的诚实而为当代和后世所景仰,但他们的诚实却动摇了上帝的地位从而得罪了教会,因此在受人尊崇的同时,不是被烧死就是被禁闭。对诚实的否定固然令 Honesty, as a good character, has always been highly respected moral. However, moral evaluation and historical evaluation often diverge from each other: when morality gives a high degree of affirmation of honesty, its political or economic response sometimes happens to be negative. Galileo defended and promoted “heliocentric theory,” and Servit’s “theory of blood circulation” was an honest manifestation. Because of this profound honesty, they also admired the present and future generations, but their honesty shaken God’s The status thus offended the church, so being respected, not being burned to death or being confined. Denial of honesty, of course