Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. Introduction

   • Hugo Strandberg

   Pages 1-3

3. Know Thyself!

   • Hugo Strandberg

   Pages 4-13

4. What Kind of Self-Knowledge?

   • Hugo Strandberg

   Pages 14-25

5. The Concept of Self-Deception as Morally Central

   • Hugo Strandberg

   Pages 26-37

6. Self-Deception

   • Hugo Strandberg

   Pages 38-51

7. The True Self

   • Hugo Strandberg

   Pages 52-72

8. The Individual and Society

   • Hugo Strandberg

   Pages 73-103

9. Kant’s Political Philosophy

   • Hugo Strandberg

   Pages 104-121

10. The Freedom of the Will

    • Hugo Strandberg

    Pages 122-134

11. The World as Resistance

    • Hugo Strandberg

    Pages 135-146

12. The Will

    • Hugo Strandberg

    Pages 147-167

13. The Good

    • Hugo Strandberg

    Pages 168-181

14. Back Matter

    Pages 182-237

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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.

• Immanuel Kant
• knowledge
• philosophy
• understanding

“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)

• Åbo Akademi University, Finland

  Hugo Strandberg

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).

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