Tag: Elenchus

• September 3, 2014

  Self-deception and self-knowledge (with a brief excursus on the Socratic elenchus)

  I think it a good starting point to claim that someone would’t think of deceiving himself unless that about which he were about to deceive himself were thought to be painful for him to confront. The thought of someone trying to deceive himself about something pleasant sounds patently absurd. It could only be that someone who got a…