The Importance of Moral Self Knowledge

The obstacles to moral self knowledge are fairly clear first, we don't want to know ourselves as sinners because the truth is too ugly. Aesop tells a story that when jupiter made man, he gave man two knapsacks, one for his neighbor's faults and one for his own. And yet you set me there before my own face, that i might see how vile i was, how twisted and unclean and spotted and ulcerous i saw myself, and was horrified. It takes a small miracle to see onesself as one truly is, in no part because the miracle is so resisted.