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    It is not the case that Those who wish to cultivate themselves must make a genuine effort to forbid self-deception

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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