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    Self-deception inhibits the ability of agents to stand by... — Carmelics
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    Self-deception inhibits the ability of agents to stand by or apply their moral principles

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    • 1.Self-deception manifests weakness of character that biases belief acquisition and retention in response to fear, anxiety, or desire for pleasure
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    • 2.Such epistemic cowardice and lack of self-control bias beliefs about particular circumstances, consequences, or engagements
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    • 3.This bias can obscure the moral principles themselves
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    • 1.Self-deception can preserve motivational commitment to moral principles when full epistemic transparency would produce akratic paralysis or despair.
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    • 2.Sartre's 'bad faith' analysis shows agents sometimes use self-deception to sustain engagement with values they could not maintain under radical lucidity.
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    • 3.Therefore, self-deception may in some cases be instrumentally necessary for agents to continue applying moral principles at all.
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    • 1.Nisbett and Wilson's work on introspective limits shows agents systematically lack accurate access to their own cognitive processes.
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    • 2.If agents cannot reliably distinguish self-deception from genuine moral reasoning, the category of 'self-deception inhibiting principles' loses its normative precision.
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    • 3.Holding agents responsible for self-deception that undermines moral principles presupposes a degree of reflective access that empirical psychology consistently disconfirms.
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    While some instances of self-deception seem morally innocuous and others may even be thought salutary in various ways (Rorty 1994), the majority of theorists have thought there to be something morally objectionable about self-deception or its consequences in many cases. Self-deception has been considered objectionable because it facilitates harm to others (Linehan 1982) and to oneself, undermines autonomy (Darwall 1988; Baron 1988), corrupts conscience (Butler 1722), violates authenticity (Sartr
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