The self of self-love -- Evil and the subordination of the moral law -- Kantian self-deception -- Self-deception, the necessary conditions of evil, and the entrenchment of evil -- Self-deception, dissimulation, and the universality of evil in human nature -- Kantian self-cognition -- Kant's two-stage model of moral reform -- Moral misunderstandings and the ethical community.
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Throughout his writings, Immanuel Kant offers, but does not clearly defend, the claim that evil involves self-deception. Laura Papish's Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform explains why Kant sees self-deception as implicated in evil and how, by contrast, human beings can develop a self-knowledge that facilitates moral reform.