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A book for anyone who has ever tried to deceive themselves, as well as any other philosopher interested in the phenomenon of self-deception. Falling to Pieces offers an opportunity to look closer at human behaviour and the mental strategies which underlie it.
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Jeremy Havardi was born in 1972 in London. He attended Orley Farm School and Haberdashers Aske's before reading philosophy at Bristol University. He obtained a BA and MA there before taking an MPhil degree in the subject at King's College, London and a BA in History at the Open University. He now teaches philosophy and history and plans to write a book on British war films.
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Self deception always revolves around a question of self esteem. We all want to believe that we are worthwhile people, that we are competent, intelligent, honest and virtuous. Not only do we want to be people with those characteristics but also we need to appear that way. Success in life is largely about impression management, about pretending to others that we are so much better than we suspect ourselves to be. It is an uncomfortable fact that there will always be a gap between our aspirations and reality. We have a self image that relates to the kind of person that we think we are and an ideal self which relates to how we would like to be. If there is a vast chasm between these two, then often low self esteem results. If we cannot change reality, yet refuse to be mediocre, it is our self perceptions that must alter.
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Falling To Pieces - Making Sense of Self-Deception and the Divided Mind
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The Book Guild, Lewes, East Sussex, 2004
ISBN 10: 1857768353
ISBN 13: 9781857768350
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Seller: Goldring Books, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A rigorous work of philosophy which takes as its subject one of the most common forms of irrational behaviour in human beings. Self-deception has been much written about from a philosophical point of view, but, according to the author, has never been adequately explained or rebutted. Through cogent analysis of key texts, he demonstrates why so many previous attempts to dismiss the notion of self-deception as being ontologically impossible fall short of explaining away a form of irrationality that is familiar to most of us. He also considers the significance of Freud's theories for the phenomenon, where psychology might appear to be the most obvious tool for explaining it. D4D Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 005002
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