Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
acrasy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. except in Med. Excess; intemperance.
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- noun lack of
self-control ;excess ;intemperance
Etymologies
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Examples
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So the techne analogy might be construed to imply the impossibility of acrasia.
Plato's Shorter Ethical Works Woodruff, Paul 2005
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Socrates then approaches the wisdom-virtue question from another angle, that of acrasia
Plato's Shorter Ethical Works Woodruff, Paul 2005
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If acrasia is impossible, then every moral error involves a cognitive failure about the action or the principle that it violates, and cognitive errors negative (or at least weaken) responsibility for actions caused by those errors.
Plato's Shorter Ethical Works Woodruff, Paul 2005
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Protagoras, which introduces the doctrines of the unity of virtue and the impossibility of acrasia (the doctrine that it is impossible to know what is right and still do wrong).
Plato's Shorter Ethical Works Woodruff, Paul 2005
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After Aristotle, philosophers have termed this the issue of acrasia.
Plato's Shorter Ethical Works Woodruff, Paul 2005
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Some said it went to acrasia, rigging everything up murklins and then just BANG!!
BEYOND THE BLOG 2009
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Throughout the day, there was an acrasia of ash falling from the sky where clouds of smoke hung over the valley.
I Was Born2Cree8 2009
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This week's (Week 20) words are: acrasia; murklins; & oncethmus
I Was Born2Cree8 2009
vanishedone commented on the word acrasia
Akrasia is the romanisation I'm familiar with in discussion of Aristotelian ethics, etc.
July 9, 2008