Weakness of Will
Fleetingakrasia
- External reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrasia
Akrasia (əˈkreɪziə; Greek ἀκρασία, “lacking command” or “weakness”, occasionally transliterated as acrasia or Anglicised as acrasy or acracy) is a lack of self-control or acting against one’s better judgment
Beginning with Plato, a variety of philosophers have attempted to determine whether or not akrasia exists and how best to define it.
Socrates asks precisely how it is possible that, if one judges action A to be the best course of action, why would one do anything other than A?
Plato’s Socrates attests that akrasia does not exist, claiming “No one goes willingly toward the bad”
Davidson solves the problem by saying that, when people act in this way they temporarily believe that the worse course of action is better because they have not made an all-things-considered judgment but only a judgment based on a subset of possible considerations.