Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
acrasy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. except in Med. Excess; intemperance.
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- noun lack of
self-control ;excess ;intemperance
Etymologies
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Examples
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So the techne analogy might be construed to imply the impossibility of acrasia.
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Socrates then approaches the wisdom-virtue question from another angle, that of acrasia
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If acrasia is impossible, then every moral error involves a cognitive failure about the action or the principle that it violates, and cognitive errors negative (or at least weaken) responsibility for actions caused by those errors.
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Protagoras, which introduces the doctrines of the unity of virtue and the impossibility of acrasia (the doctrine that it is impossible to know what is right and still do wrong).
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After Aristotle, philosophers have termed this the issue of acrasia.
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Some said it went to acrasia, rigging everything up murklins and then just BANG!!
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Throughout the day, there was an acrasia of ash falling from the sky where clouds of smoke hung over the valley.
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This week's (Week 20) words are: acrasia; murklins; & oncethmus
vanishedone commented on the word acrasia
Akrasia is the romanisation I'm familiar with in discussion of Aristotelian ethics, etc.
July 9, 2008