Tag: Self-deception

• 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…
• August 31, 2014

  Self-deception: A threat to philosophizing

  Self-deception–what is it? It seems to be rather like lying to oneself, but how does one do that? You can lie to others, but it beggars the comprehension to fathom how one could pull off the trick of lying to oneself. This may be why we say that self-deception is like lying to oneself. Deceiving oneself is not…