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    Self-deception undermines or erodes agency — Carmelics
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    Self-deception undermines or erodes agency

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    • 1.Self-deception reduces our capacity for self-scrutiny and change
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    • 2.If one is self-deceived about harmful actions or practices, one's ability to take responsibility and change is severely restricted
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    • 1.Sartre's analysis in Being and Nothingness shows self-deception (mauvaise foi) presupposes the very freedom and reflective capacity it allegedly destroys.
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    • 2.An agent incapable of genuine self-awareness could not construct the sophisticated dual-belief structure that constitutes self-deception.
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    • 3.Therefore, self-deception paradoxically demonstrates robust agency rather than its erosion.
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    • 1.Fingarette argued in Self-Deception (1969) that disavowal of an engagement is itself a purposive, skilled activity requiring executive agency.
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    • 2.If self-deception requires the orchestration of attention and narrative to suppress awareness, it constitutes an exercise of agency, not its undermining.
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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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