There’s a simple, very common conflict that happens all the time and frequently results in the appearance of akrasia:
A) In the future, I want X to have been done.
B) I don’t want to be doing x.
It’s like someone pointing a gun at you and threatening to kill you unless you cut yourself with a knife, or wanting to stop taking a harmful drug with extremely unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. You must “voluntarily” inflict this bad thing upon yourself, or the world will inflict something worse upon you.
This seems true to me (that it happens all the time). I think the article helps by showing that we often fail to recognise that A) and B) can both be true. Also, if we accept that A) and B) are both true and don’t create an identify conflict about it, we can probably be more effective in striking a compromise (i.e. giving up either or finding some other way to get A that does not involve B).
There’s a simple, very common conflict that happens all the time and frequently results in the appearance of akrasia:
A) In the future, I want X to have been done.
B) I don’t want to be doing x.
It’s like someone pointing a gun at you and threatening to kill you unless you cut yourself with a knife, or wanting to stop taking a harmful drug with extremely unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. You must “voluntarily” inflict this bad thing upon yourself, or the world will inflict something worse upon you.
This seems true to me (that it happens all the time). I think the article helps by showing that we often fail to recognise that A) and B) can both be true. Also, if we accept that A) and B) are both true and don’t create an identify conflict about it, we can probably be more effective in striking a compromise (i.e. giving up either or finding some other way to get A that does not involve B).