The social and political sources of akrasia

Ethics 107 (4):644-657 (1997)
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Akrasia is not always --or only-- a solitary failure to act on a person's judgment of what is, all things considered, best. Nor is it always a species of moral or ethical failure prompted by a form of irrationality. It is often prompted by social support and sustained by structuring political institutions

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Amelie Rorty
PhD: Yale University; Last affiliation: Boston University

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