caa a22 4500 606238484 CHVBK 20210128101258.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-015-9578-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-015-9578-4 Bransen Jan Department of Philosophy, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, PO Box 9104, 6500, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut Self-Knowledge and Self-Love [Elektronische Daten] [Jan Bransen] In this paper I argue for the claim that self-love is a precondition for self-knowledge. This claim is relevant to the contemporary philosophical debate on self-knowledge, but mainly because it draws attention to the role of claims of self-knowledge in the larger context of our ordinary practice of rationalizing and appropriating our actions. In this practice it is crucial for persons to open-mindedly investigate the limits of their own responsible agency, an investigation that requires a warm and gentle kindness to avoid both being too easy in welcoming and too merciless in resisting one's own imperfections as a minded agent. This kindness, I argue, is grounded in an evaluative relation of caring, a type of relation that is incompatible with self-hatred. The Author(s), 2015 Self-love nationallicence Self-knowledge nationallicence Self-determination nationallicence Rationalization nationallicence Self-hatred nationallicence Agential limits nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/2(2015-04-01), 309-321 1386-2820 18:2<309 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9578-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9578-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bransen Jan Department of Philosophy, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, PO Box 9104, 6500, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/2(2015-04-01), 309-321 1386-2820 18:2<309 2015 18 10677