Los Angeles Southwest College Factors Leading to Self Deception Essays

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Hauerwas and Burrell associate self-deception with “unexamined engagements.” How can our failure to examine relationships with certain persons or institutions lead to self-deception and active or passive participation in wrongdoing?

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Session twenty-five: 10/28/2019 Sin and self-deception: We’re not always who we think we are “Gonnahave to serve somebody” Bob Dylan You may be a preacher with your spiritual pride You may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side You may be workin' in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair You may be somebody's mistress, may be somebody's heir But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes You're gonna have to serve somebody Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you're gonna have to serve somebody “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” Ludwig Wittgenstein A first question: What might Wittgenstein mean by “deceiving oneself”? Do you think he is right about self-deception? What are we talking about when we talk about self-deception? Self-deception: The “action or fact of deceiving oneself…” To deceive is to “cause to believe what is false… lead into error… delude.”* *From the OED “Contrary to our dominant presumptions, we are seldom conscious of what we are doing or who we are.” Hauerwas & Burrell, 82 Next question: What does this way of putting the matter say about what self-deception is—and what it is not? Consider this clip from the film “The Talented Mr. Ripley”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRaMMpZHqi4 Next question: Do you think the character portrayed by Matt Damon is correct about how we generally think of ourselves? Is such thinking a kind of self-deception? How so (or why not)? Let’s look at another passage from today’s reading… “We profess sincerity and normally try to abide by that… yet we neglect to acquire the very skills which test that profession of sincerity… On the contrary, we deliberately allow certain engagements to go unexamined, quite aware that areas left unaccountable tend to cater to self-interest.” Hauerwas & Burrell, 82 Note from the preceding: “we profess sincerity… but” “[we] neglect to acquire… skills that test that profession” “[we] allow… engagements to go unexamined” “areas left unaccountable…cater to self-interest” What might this language tell us about selfdeception? Are self-deceived persons necessarily bad ? Are self-deceived people necessarily bad people? “The irony of self-deception is that a cynic is less vulnerable to self-deception than a conscientious person.” Hauerwas & Burrell, 87 Cynic: A cynic is one who is habitually skeptical about the sincerity or goodness of human motives and often expresses this through sarcasm. Adapted from the OED at: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/46638?redirectedFrom=cynic#eid Next question: Why might a cynic be less likely to be self-deceived? The authors’ model for self-deception: The authors’ model for self-deception: Albert Speer Albert Speer (1905-1981) “The Nazi who said ‘I’m sorry’” • Born 1905 in Mannheim, Germany • Trained as an architect at the Technical University of Berlin • Joined the Nazi Party in 1931; appointed party architect 1934. • Appointed Minister of Armaments 1942 • Tried at Nuremberg, where he accepted responsibility, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for war crimes. Inside the Third Reich(1969) “I have always thought it was a most valuable trait to recognize reality and not to pursue delusions. But when I think now over my life up to and including the years of imprisonment, there was no period in which I was free of delusory notions.” “Speer’s life warns us, certainly, of the possible misuses of technology, but the warning is directed more accurately against those who feel they need no images and symbols beyond those offered by conventional roles to give coherence to their lives.” Hauerwas & Burrell, 95 Next question: What might the authors mean by “images and symbols beyond conventional roles” in the preceding sentence? What might have been Speer’s “conventional role,” and how might it have been part of his self-deception? According to the authors, the antidote to self– deception is truth—in particular, a “true story.” “A true story could only be one powerful enough to check the endemic tendency toward self-deception—a tendency which inadequate stories cannot help but foster. Correlatively, if the true God were to provide us with a saving story, it would have to be one that we found continually discomforting. For it would be a saving story only as it empowered us to combat the inertial drift into self-deception.” Hauerwas & Burrell, 95 Next question: What phrase or phrases in the preceding sentences might indicate why self-deception is so widespread? “endemic tendency” “continually discomforting” “inertial drift” Next question: Why might a story’s ability to discomfit us—to make us uncomfortable—be necessary in helping us avoid self-deception? “The stories that produce truthful lives are those that provide the skills to step back and survey the limits of our engagements.” Hauerwas & Burrell, 98 Next question: That’s twice the word “engagements” has come up. What do the authors mean by “engagements,” and what might they have to do with self-deception? Getting personal: •In what way or ways, in what aspects of life, are you most liable to engage in self-deceptive behavior? • The authors speak repeatedly of self-deception entailing ignoring certain “engagements.” What present and potential future engagements in your life might prove morally dangerous if you allow yourself to ignore them? •What might be some consistent and dependable hedges against self-deception?
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Running Head: SELF DECEPTION

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Self Deception
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SELF DECEPTION

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Self-deception is an act of an individual believing in the information, idea or situation that
it is true without making any move to confirm whether it is true or not. People, therefore, are
supposed to be careful before believing unconfirmed information or issues because by not making
any effort to confirm it, then it will le to self-deception. This happens when an individual trusts
another person without putting measures that will ensure that all the information given by the
trusted person is the truth. A person should also find the truth by conducting private research about
various issues hence ensuring that one is knowledgeable on various issues hence making it difficult
for them to accept unverified information that may lead to self-deception.
Most of the self-deception instances result from unexamined engagements which entail
making agreements with people without getting to understand better the dealings and the kind of
people engaged with. An individual will have false expectations depending on the initial
impression that was created. Having, therefore, expectations that might not be...


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