"This is how the spectacle of brave soldiers casting aside their own self-interest and putting themselves at risk leads to a form of moral self-deception that is difficult to avoid," he wrote.
Ways in which the sciences of the brain and mind illuminate traditional moral and philosophical problems, such as the nature of free will and moral responsibility, self-deception, weakness of the will, personal identity, and the nature of personhood.
The remaining sermons consider a number of key features of moral psychology — self-deception, benevolence, forgiveness, compassion — and further develop the discussions of self-love and virtue initiated in the first three sermons.
It constitutes the moral self.
Although Henry "progresses upwards toward manhood and moral triumph", as he begins to mature by taking leave of his previous "romantic notions," "the education of the hero ends as it began: in self deception".
Self deception is still about lying.
Most people are experts at self deception.
Here we confront the nexus between moral responsibility for self-deception and the morality of self-deception.
It is a problem of particular concern for moral development, since self-deception can make us strangers to ourselves and blind to our own moral failings.
As a threat to moral self-knowledge, a cover for immoral activity, and a violation of authenticity, self-deception has been thought to be morally wrong or, at least, morally dangerous.
Hekman, Susan J. Moral Voices, Moral Selves.
