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Title: Self-knowledge and self-love
Author(s): Bransen, J.A.M.
Publication year: 2015
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol. 18, iss. 2, (2015), pp. 309-321
Number of Pages: 13 p.
ISSN: 1386-2820
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9578-4
Publication type: Article / Letter to editor

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Subject: Center for Cognition, Culture and Language (CCCL)
Developing normativity in education
Organization: SW OZ BSI FGW
Leerstoel Filosofie van cognitie en taal
Journal title:
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Volume: vol. 18
Issue: iss. 2
Page start: p. 309
Page end: p. 321
Abstract:
n this paper I argue for the claim that self-love is a precondition for self-knowledge. This claim is relevant to the contemporary philosophical debate on self-knowledge, but mainly because it draws attention to the role of claims of self-knowledge in the larger context of our ordinary practice of rationalizing and appropriating our actions. In this practice it is crucial for persons to open-mindedly investigate the limits of their own responsible agency, an investigation that requires a warm and gentle kindness to avoid both being too easy in welcoming and too merciless in resisting one's own imperfections as a minded agent. This kindness, I argue, is grounded in an evaluative relation of caring, a type of relation that is incompatible with self-hatred.
Languages used: English (eng)

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