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  • Consider, for example, Jonathan Bennett's Huckleberry Finn (Bennett 1974, discussed in McIntyre 1990), who akratically fails to turn in his slave friend Jim to the authorities.

    Weakness of Will Stroud, Sarah 2008

  • Hence she may act akratically because she was charmed by some aspect of the less good choice ” and as Stocker says, there is no need to posit plural values to make sense of this ” being charmed is not the same as valuing.

    Value Pluralism Mason, Elinor 2006

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