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Self and deception : a cross-cultural philosophical enquiry /

This volume contains essays by a range of distinguished philosophers on the problem of self-deception, or rather, self and deception. The work proceeds from the assumption that changing constructions of self within Western cultures, and alternative notions of self in other cultures requires that we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ames, Roger T., 1947-, Dissanayake, Wimal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • On the very possibility of self-deception / Brian P. McLaughlin
  • Vital but dangerous art of ignoring : selective attention and self-deception / Annette C. Baier
  • User-friendly self-deception / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
  • Self, deception, and self-deception in philosophy / Robert C. Solomon
  • Bad faith and Kitsch as models for self-deception / Kathleen Marie Higgins
  • Unloading the self-refutation charge / Barbara Herrnstein Smith
  • Falsity, psychic indefiniteness, and self-knowledge / Joel J. Kupperman
  • Confucian perspective on self-deception / A.S. Cua.
  • Confucian construction of a self-deceivable self / Robert Cummings Neville
  • Classical Chinese self and hypocrisy / Roger T. Ames
  • Our names are legion for we are many : on the academics of deception / David L. Hall
  • Half-dressed emperor : societal self-deception and recent "Japanokritik" in America / William R. LaFleur
  • Facing the self with masks : perspectives on the personal from Nietzsche and the Japanese / Graham Parkes
  • Self-deception : a comparative study / Eliot Deutsch
  • Self-deception and cultural contextualization : reflections on two Indian novels / Wimal Dissanayake
  • Ritual, self-deception, and make-believe : a classical Buddhist perspective / Richard P. Hayes.