Hugo Strandberg 
Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception 

The aim of this book is to acquire a better understanding of the question ‘who am I?’ By means of the concepts of self-knowledge and self-deception questions about the self are studied. The light in which its topic is seen is the light of love, the light in which other people really become visible and so oneself in one’s relation to them.

Table of Content

Introduction

1. Know Thyself!

2. What Kind Of Self-Knowledge?

3. The Concept Of Self-Deception As Morally Central

4. Self-Deception

5. The True Self

6. The Individual And Society

7. Kant ‘ ‘s Political Philosophy

8. The Freedom Of The Will

9. The World As Resistance

10. The Will

11. The Good

About the author

Hugo Strandberg is Lecturer in philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He is the author of Love of a God of Love: Towards a Transformation of the Philosophy of Religion (2011), Escaping My Responsibility: Investigations into the Nature of Morality (2009), and The Possibility of Discussion: Relativism, Truth and Criticism of Religious Beliefs (2006).