The Protagoras - Weakness of Will
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Universal Human Phenomenon
knowing one action is better & still continuing to do the bad one
Weakness of Will (akrasia)
considered a ubiquitous part of human psychological life
seen as a defeat of human agency - of things going wrong somehow
Weakness of Will =
Lack of Self-control
Plato’s “Protagoras” -
Socrates denies existence of weakness of will
According to phenomenon…
knowledge is overcome by pleasant that an agent against what they know
knowledge defeated
Psychologically Impossible
socrates thinks this is psychologically impossible
Socrates powerful claim…
true knowledge can not be overcome by feelings
Our behavior -
motivated by our knowledge - knowledge too powerful to be overcome by drives
The Socratic view
means phenomenon has a cause other than pleasure/pain
Ignorace
Socrates claims the real cause is ignorance
Hyperbolic Discounting
tendency to prefer more immediate reward to later reward & preference spikes as reward nears
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