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    Those who wish to cultivate themselves must make a genuin... — Carmelics
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    Those who wish to cultivate themselves must make a genuine effort to forbid self-deception

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    • 1.Knowing what is right and wrong is not sufficient for acting rightly
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    • 2.One must keep moral knowledge present to consciousness for it to become motivationally efficacious
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    • 3.Hatred of the ethically hateful must be as automatic as hating a hateful odor
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    • 1.Freudian and Sartrean accounts establish that self-deception is structurally constitutive of consciousness, not merely a correctable epistemic failing.
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    • 2.If self-deception is partially constitutive of selfhood, commanding its prohibition presupposes the very transparent self-knowledge that cultivation is meant to produce.
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    • 1.Aristotle argues in NE II.1 that virtue is acquired through habituation in action, not through vigilant introspective monitoring of one's motivational states.
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    • 2.Excessive self-scrutiny of one's moral sincerity can itself corrupt natural virtue by replacing spontaneous right action with performance of sincerity.
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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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