Liberty and Self-Deception
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liberty, self-deception, autonomyAbstract
The article analyses the concept of self-deception by relating it to the question of negative and positive liberty. After examining the specificity of the phenomenon of self-deception, the text proposes to limit its possible negative outcomes through the rational subject’s recourse to precommitment.
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