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Deceiving oneself is evasion of self-acknowledgment of some truth or of what one would view as truth if one were to confront an issue squarely
Important element is holding concealment of truth or view of truth
Does not have to be instance of lying to oneself
Does not have to pertain to holding false belief |
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| Inner Hypocrisy Tradition |
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View self-deception as derivative wrong
Christian belief
Find self-deception problematic b/c undermines commitments to objectively justifiable moral values
Ex. Fairness
Grading papers in unfair way to make easier
Undermines moral commitment to students
Self-deception can lead to hypocrisy in the future.
i.e. Some instances of self-deception are also instances of hypocrisy. |
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| Resentiment... Value Delusion |
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| Value delusion: When hold feeling of envy, hate, or any malice against yourself. Instead of addressing this focused hate towards oneself or something else, hate is suppressed and manifested to general negativity. This negativity distorts reality and leads to value delusion |
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people who have fallen away from the faith
When leave original religion, you never fully cast it off, so you cannot replace it with anything. So instead you are spiteful to it. |
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| Misconception of Self-Deception |
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1.) There should be evidence that intentional evasion of self-acknowledgement actually occurred
2.) There must be some sort of independent evidence in believing that the view in question is false or unjustified.
Self-deceiving hypocrites and self-aware hypocrites (worse) |
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Has two dimensions
1.) Autonomy
2.) Significant truths
Self-deception is primary and only wrong |
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advocate of both hypocrisy and authenticity traditions
Christian, so he has to hold objectivity of morality |
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the awareness of being imperfectly moral
Ethical, moral self only surfaces when we can accept our despair
Directs attention to the process of decision making while retaining a belief in objective moral values |
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His view de-emphasizes objective moral values
Emphasizes freedom of individual as author of own self
We can get around tendency to involve in self-deception |
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1.) We’re not caused to think or act in any particular way
Problematic – there are things about our situation which we cannot control
Nevertheless we are still free to think or act in a particular way
2.) We’re free to select among various options at any given moment
3.) We’re free to choose the general way in which we respond to the world
Our manner at looking at world
Our values – we can interpret the world however we want
4.) Free to pursue goals and modify world
5.) Free to interpret world and our lives in whatever way we wish, thus giving our lives any meaning we want
6.) Free to acknowledge and to evade acknowledging things of the world and ourselves
Free to deny all aforementioned freedoms |
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We are constantly attempting to avoid reflection on our own freedom
Ex. Out with friends, subject comes to smoking
One friend says “occasional cigarette”
One says “smoker and can’t do anything about it”
Both are of bad faith
There is common assumption that we are condemned to ourselves |
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Because it is anguishing to acknowledge truths, we tend to deceive ourselves in order to avoid the pain
K’s ST’s
Freedom of consciousness and moral duties to Christianity
S’s ST’s
The only universal goal of freedom was the appreciation of freedom itself
Freedom as defining mark of an authentic individual |
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S-d is necessary for promoting vital human needs like self-respect, self-improvement, hope, friendship, and viable community It is possible that self-deception is good in certain regards
Contrast with authenticity tradition (all s-d should be eradicated)
Our attempts to eliminate s-d from our lives and lives of others may in fact be harmful
Vital Lie tradition seems to presuppose view of world that requires human to engage in s-d as coping mechanism – world is so bad we have to deceive ourselves
Does not claim that s-d is morally ambiguous
But V.L. gives impression that s-d is a virtue
p.123 – FINAL EXAM MATERIAL
Socratic quest for self-knowledge
In considering V.L., is soc. quest important
Such a preoccupation with truth may be matter of being overly preoccupied |
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