In this week’s main essays in The New Yorker:
“Finn Janning, a Danish philosopher based in Barcelona, studies the gap between self-knowledge and self-deception. Under the guise of transparency, he told me, we can deceive ourselves, reasoning that we are good because we are open about what we are doing. (Modern-day-autocrats often present themselves as “transparent.”) He also noted that transparency is not necessarily a positive motivating force. “Transparency does not lead to you acting better,” Janning said. “On the contrary, you try to fit into the norm. You act in a predictable way.”
Read the whole essay here.
FINN JANNING 