Everything Is Going to Be Okay, Right? Kindness, Compassion, and the Moral Permissibility of Self-Deception

Most people seem to have the intuition that self-deception is always and obviously wrong. In this thesis, I make the case that under certain circumstances, self-deception can actually do a great deal of good and ought to be morally permissible – especially in cases where it would be life-threatening...

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Main Author: Heffernan, Christine
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7075