benelliott comments on [SEQ RERUN] Self-deception: Hypocrisy or Akrasia? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 17 May 2011 08:55:52PM 3 points [-]

It is tempting to say "hypocrisy" when you really mean "akrasia", because you'll get more attention...

And because not very many people know what "akrasia" means.

Comment author: benelliott 17 May 2011 09:27:34PM 0 points [-]

That's a bit like saying that you should describe the colour of fire engines as 'blue' because some people won't understand 'crimson'. Surely 'weak-willed' is better than 'hypocrisy'.

Comment author: glunkthunker 17 May 2011 11:54:09PM 4 points [-]

Interesting as I thought this was the most powerful point of the post:

At the very least, it is a controversial step in moral reasoning to decide that people's emotional impulses and subconscious pressures, rather than their declarative moral reasoning processes and the words that issue from their lips, constitute their "real selves". We should then call akrasia, not weakness of will, but strength of will.

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