Because classic Stoic authors often attribute people doing wrong to a sort of ignorance on their part, people understandably get confused when they see cases of someone knowingly or willingly doing wrong. Here's a piece with helpful clarification

https://medium.com/practical-rationality/can-people-knowingly-do-wrong-epictetus-view-441d29d5e2c7
#Stoic #Stoicism #Wrongdoing #Knowledge #Akrasia #Choice #Ethics #Philosophy

#Albumreview #Apewards neues Album #Akrasia im #Selbstvertrieb
#Musikkritik

https://brutstatt.de/2023/05/05/apewards-akrasia-album-review/

Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Aristotle's discussion of akrasia - loss/lack of self-control - in Nicomachean Ethics book 7, this one looking at his assertion that akrasia due to anger (thumos) is better than plain old akrasia

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/aristotle-nicomachean-ethics-bk-7-akrasia-anger-better

#Podcast #Aristotle #Anger #Akrasia #SelfControl #Argument #Desire #Reason #Pleasure #Philosophy #Ethics

Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, this one looking at the different kinds of things we can be akratic or lack/lose self-control with

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/aristotle-nicomachean-ethics-bk-7-qualified-forms-of-akrasia
#Aristotle #Philosophy #Control #Akrasia #Choice #Desire #Ethics

Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, where he asks whether people who lack/lose self-control really do possess knowledge of what's right or wrong.

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/aristotle-nicomachean-ethics-bk-7-akrasia-and-knowledge
#Aristotle #Podast #Akrasia #SelfControl #Philosophy

Starting a new series in the Sadler's Lectures podcast, covering all the key ideas in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics bk 7. This one is on akrasia - loss or lack of self-control. Or knowing you're doing the wrong thing!

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/aristotle-nicomachean-ethics-bk-7-akrasia-of-lack-of-self-control
#Podcast #Aristotle #Akrasia #Ethics #SelfControl #Philosophy

Just as universal compassion for all humans isn't a sacrifice - but a joy...

So it is with universal compassion for all sentient beings.

#Akrasia #Rationality #Emotion #Morality #Spinoza #Plato #Descartes #SocialJustice

https://youtu.be/8_WrVvoe2Vc
@eaaltola 💚

'Akrasia' is de ervaring dat je weet dat een actie in je belang is, maar je doet het niet.

Vandaag om 17.00 debat in SPUI25 over #akrasia-problemen in de samenleving, zoals #verslaving, de #klimaatcrisis en ons handelen daarin. #psychologie
https://go.uva.nl/3XzcU8P

#Akrasia on noussut esille täälläkin pariin otteeseen. SFY:n tuoreessa Ajatus 79:ssä osui silmii lectio Polaris Koin väitöskirjaan #itsekontrollin (arvo-deflationistisesta) access-teoriasta, joka yksilön ohella korostaa ympäristön tukien saatavuutta siinä, toiminko kannaltani järkevästi. Liittyy vaikka mihin! Yksi esittely, https://aamuset.fi/artikkeli/5479106, ja linkki väitöskirjaan, https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/152722.

@jyrkiw Ehkä #akrasia on yleinen ilmiö eri nautinnan ja kuluttamisen alueilla: https://hermithounds.com/2015/01/23/akrasia-eli-miksi-ihmiset-syovat-lihaa-2/? Tuosta artikkelista saa helposti analogioita.

Been reading #Kant's practical philosophy & Korsgaard for a project the last few weeks, & now I really want to re-read Kant's Religion & #Plato's Republic, but have other things I need to do. (Also, holidays.)

It'd be ironic to read Plato akratically b/c doing so is pleasant.

#books #philosophy #histodons #ethics #akrasia

@adambienkov God, how dull. The more interesting book would be how Johnson destroyed himself. I recall his own explanation for his repeated failures is that he suffers from #akrasia. He probably could have been the boss for 3 terms but *he* blew it...

Any thoughts on #akrasia, @philosophy ?

This Friday, I am going to start #teaching a four-week #lecture series “Is mental conflict possible? Akrasia as a touchstone of ancient moral philosophies” at the Department of #Philosophy in #Oxford. The course covers treatments of #akrasia (weakness of will / lack of control / incontinence) in #AncientPhilosophy (Greek and Roman traditions), covering #Socrates, #Plato, #Aristotle, and (as always, if there is time) the #Stoics.

Question: what interesting treatments of this phenomenon in other philosophical traditions / the later #HistoryOfPhilosophy could I read up on to also mention to my students to more fully introduce and motivate the course?