Single Idea 23995

[catalogued under 20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will]

Full Idea

I call it 'last ditch' akrasia when we deliberately decide to do something, and then don't do it, and 'impetuous' akrasia when we rush into doing something which, if we had deliberated, we would not have done.

Gist of Idea

Akrasia can be either overruling our deliberation, or failing to deliberate

Source

Peter Goldie (The Emotions [2000], 4 'Education')

Book Reference

Goldie,Peter: 'The Emotions' [OUP 2002], p.111


A Reaction

I'm not convinced that his impetuous version counts as akrasia, which seems to be vice of people who deliberate. [But he cites Aristotle 1150b19-].