akrasia

Yet we do these things anyway as a result of circumstances, ignorance and, perhaps most of all, what the Greeks called akrasia, or weakness of will.

Losing Control 2009

He calls the kind of akrasia caused by an appetite for pleasure “unqualified akrasia” ” or, as we might say, akrasia “full stop”; akrasia caused by anger he considers a qualified form of akrasia and calls it akrasia “with respect to anger”.

Aristotle's Ethics Kraut, Richard 2007

You should take pictures with your camera-phone and send it to all your Twitter buddies with a snarky caption mocking my pathetic akrasia.

One-Player Game Theory 2009

You should take pictures with your camera-phone and send it to all your Twitter buddies with a snarky caption mocking my pathetic akrasia.

One-Player Game Theory 2009

Moreover, the occurrence of akrasia would seem to require their existence.

Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic Brown, Eric 2009

If I recall correctly, they can fairly easily remove themselves, though not, as it were, on the spot with a phone call, creating just enough of a hurdle to frustrate spontaneous attacks of akrasia.

Libertarian Paternalism: The Revenge 2007

If you think that competing appetitive attitudes could give rise to a strict case of standard akrasia, you should recall how Socrates would have to explain these cases of psychological conflict in order to avoid multiplying his divisions in the soul.

Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic Brown, Eric 2009

Second, how do they understand the relation between intention and evaluative thought, which bears on the possibility of akrasia, and the relation between intention and belief, which bears on the nature and scope of self-knowledge?

Intention Setiya, Kieran 2009

Weakness of will as the untutored understand it is not akrasia (if we reserve that term for action contrary to one's better judgment), but rather a certain kind of failure to stick to one's plans.

Weakness of Will Stroud, Sarah 2008

For Hare, however, any apparent case of akrasia must in fact be one in which the agent is actually unable to do

Weakness of Will Stroud, Sarah 2008

Ancient Greek philosophers found this baffling too, and named the phenomenon of a person acting against what they believe to be in their best interest – akrasia.

Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer Shayla Love 2024