tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6865077958411412236.post3888237672183028671..comments2023-12-31T21:05:31.462-05:00Comments on Virtue Ethics: Aristotle's point of view on AkrasiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6865077958411412236.post-14731697305937370052010-05-13T15:11:02.176-04:002010-05-13T15:11:02.176-04:00Well said. Don't you, too, find a tension betw...Well said. Don't you, too, find a tension between the claims that i) the akratic, motivated by passion, intentionally breaks a rule; and ii) the akratic "fails to grasp" the minor premise of a practical syllogism?<br /><br />There's something instructive about (ii) -- somehow the akratic fails to particularize the general rule. In some cases of akrasia, we catch ourselves making excuses, denying that this occasion is an instance of the rule. Perhaps in other cases we fail to catch ourselves in the act of denial....<br /><br />But more generally, we should say that the akratic's failure is not any kind of failure of reasoning. In the typical case, the akratic has recognized this present occasion as an instance of the rule -- and yet, overcome by passion, he fails to perform the action described by his good sense.Man from Flushinghttp://manfromflushing.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com