Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception

by Hugo Strandberg

Overview

The aim of this book is to acquire a better understanding of the question 'who am I?' By means of the concepts of self-knowledge and self-deception questions about the self are studied. The light in which its topic is seen is the light of love, the light in which other people really become visible and so oneself in one's relation to them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137538215
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/12/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Hugo Strandberg is Lecturer in philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He is the author of Love of a God of Love: Towards a Transformation of the Philosophy of Religion (2011), Escaping My Responsibility: Investigations into the Nature of Morality (2009), and The Possibility of Discussion: Relativism, Truth and Criticism of Religious Beliefs (2006).

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Know Thyself!

2. What Kind Of Self-Knowledge?

3. The Concept Of Self-Deception As Morally Central

4. Self-Deception

5. The True Self

6. The Individual And Society

7. Kant ' 's Political Philosophy

8. The Freedom Of The Will

9. The World As Resistance

10. The Will

11. The Good

Editorial Reviews

Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception, while well written and engaging, is a scholarly work filled with references … . the author is quite good at guiding the reader by being very explicit about what he aims at, noting how he differs from Socrates, and so forth. … Students who have a certain level of mastery of philosophy and its concepts will enjoy this book, as will other philosophers who are grappling with similar topics.” (Finn Janning, Metapyschology, metapsychology.mentalhelp.net, April, 2016)

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