Upon Self-Deceit (Bishop Joseph Butler)

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After reading Butler’s article, Upon Self-Deceit, answer the following questions:

  1. What does Butler mean when he says that many people are strangers to their own character?
  2. Is Butler right in claiming that we succeed in deceiving ourselves? Is there not a part of us that knows the truth? Can you give an example?
  3. Do you agree that the injunction “Know thyself” should be a fundamental moral rule?
  4. According to Butler, vice results from having an unreasonably high regard for ourselves in comparison with others. Do you think he is right?
  5. What does Butler mean when he tells us that being wicked in “ordinary ways” is safer than being deeply self-deluded?
  6. Why is self-deception most prevalent where the vice is undefined?

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