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“The cases of faulty action will be, either when the Machinery is perfect but wrongly directed, as in the case of a deliberate crime, or when the direction given by the Reason is right but the Will does not move in accordance with that direction, in other words, when the Machinery is out of order; as in the case of the [Greek: akrates] -- video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor.”
“The [Greek: akrates] is he whose appetites constantly prevail over his reason and previous good resolutions.”
“(Greek, _akrates_, "incontinent.") _Acra'tes_ (3 _syl_.), Incontinence personified in _The Faëry Queen_, by Spenser.”
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Philosophical Jargon
Words philosophical writers use to give the illusion of technical competence, including up-trippingly specialised senses of words that have other jobs during daylight hours.
akrasia, akrates, particularism, particularist, mereology, deontology, cognitivism, naturalism, anti-naturalism, ethics, phenomenology, metaethics and 220 more...
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prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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vanishedone One afflicted by akrasia. Oct 21, 2007