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    Humans engage in wrongdoing through self-deception — Carmelics
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    Humans engage in wrongdoing through self-deception

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    • 1.Self-deception allows people to ignore the promptings of their moral sense
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    • 2.Once the moral sense is ignored, people become motivated solely by physical desires for sex, food, and wealth
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of akrasia holds that wrongdoing often involves clear-eyed weakness of will, not self-deception about what is right.
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    • 2.If agents can knowingly act against their better judgment, self-deception is neither necessary nor sufficient to explain wrongdoing.
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    • 1.Structural injustice theorists like Iris Marion Young argue that wrongdoing frequently arises from systemic social conditions, not individual epistemic failure.
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    • 2.Attributing wrongdoing primarily to self-deception locates moral failure entirely within individual psychology, obscuring institutional and material causes.
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    As important as learning was for Zhu Xi, he stressed that it was possible to know what is right and wrong yet not act on it: “Knowledge and action always need each other. It’s like how eyes cannot walk without feet, but feet cannot see without eyes. If we discuss them in terms of their sequence, knowledge comes first. But if we discuss them in terms of importance, action is what is important” (Tiwald and Van Norden 2014, 180–81). What connects knowledge and action, on Zhu Xi’s account, is Sin
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