(601) From the moment in our lives in which we become capable of speech, we are taught that our words must be true. What does this mean? What does “telling the truth” mean? Who requires this of us? (602) It is clear that initially it is our parents who order our relationship with them by demanding truthfulness;3 and accordingly this demand is also related and limited initially—in the sense our parents intend it—to this closest circle of the family. We note further that the relationship expressed