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Bad Faith and the Unconscious

Self-deception is a complicated and puzzling phenomenon. How is it possible to actively hide something from yourself? Philosophers find this question interesting for two main reasons. One is that the answer promises to be informative about the mind more generally, or at least it seems that any theory of the nature and structure of the mind that cannot account for self-deception must be wrong. The other is that the ethical concern with how one should live and the more specific moral concern with right and wrong actions seem to require us to evaluate our own lives and those of others in an honest and unprejudiced way, a requirement we would be better equipped to fulfill if we had a clear idea of the ways in which self-deception about these things can occur. There have thus been major philosophical discussions of the nature of self-deception in both the anglophone and the European traditions of philosophy over the past century. However, these two traditions of thought have taken crucially different examples as their paradigms of self-deception. 
 
 
Keywords: 
 
metaethics; 
philosophy of mind