10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGAINST ONE'S BETTER JUDGMENT»
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Action, Intention, and Reason
If incontinent action implies going against one's better judgment, it is not precisely
equivalent to action against one's better judgment. Incontinent action must also
be uncompelled. This is largely because compelled action is not criticizable in ...
2
The Emotions in Hellenistic Philosophy
Surely, one might have supposed, that will not be true of all emotion, but only of
cases of going against one's better judgment, which the Greek philosophers call
akrasia or failure of control. But even if the problem so far can be answered,35 ...
J. Sihvola, T. Engberg-Pedersen, 1998
3
Practical Reasoning and Ethical Decision
Finally, if we are to make good sense of either Hume's notion of knowingly acting
against one's better judgment or his apparent references to deliberation in the
genesis of action, it is difficult to see how we can avoid taking him to make room,
...
Robert Audi, Title John A O'Brien Professor of Philosophy Robert Audi, 2006
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
... general usage occurred about 1900. against one's better judgment Despite
serious misgivings or objections, as in Against my better judgment, I told her to
come whenever she pleased. against one's Will Without one's consent, forcibly,
as in ...
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Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 ...
Yet the phenomenon of intentionally acting against one's better judgment or
against one's resolve, which in contemporary philosophy is called ''weakness of
will'', was the object of lively discussion. Historically, the mid-thirteenth century is
a ...
6
The Form of Practical Knowledge: a study of the categorical ...
Action reflecting weakness of will is “against one's better judgment”: to act against
one's will is to act, not just against an intention, but against a judgment as to what
one should do or how one should act, or in spite of the fact that one “knows ...
Stephen P. Engstrom, 2009
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Erotic Wisdom: Philosophy and Intermediacy in Plato's Symposium
The cases that seem to be counterexamples to this claim, cases where one
believes one is acting against one's better judgment, are not really
counterexamples, because even in those cases a part of oneself still believes
that one's choice is ...
Gary Alan Scott, William A. Welton, 2008
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A Companion to Socrates
This I take to be Socrates' primary, or official, characterization of akrasia.
Nowadays weak-willed action is often characterized as action against one's
better judgment – one's judgment of what, under the circumstances, is the better
thing to do.
Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Rachana Kamtekar, 2009
A Loose End Before bringing this chapter to an end, I shall comment briefly on an
additional puzzle about the possibility of free action against one's better judgment
. Cases are imaginable in which an agent who cannot at t resist his desire to ...
Senso also shows that one can act against one's better judgment in a way that,
from the perspective of knowledge, must appear divided and possessed: infamy
of a revolt whose recognized and unrecognized futility, far from impeding action,
...
Alexander García Düttmann, 2009
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGAINST ONE'S BETTER JUDGMENT»
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against one's better judgment is used in the context of the following news items.
In Praise of the US Senate's CIA Torture Report (News, Switzerland)
... practices or declare them - against one's better judgment - necessary and useful, thereby polluting everything that has so far remained clean. «Worldmeets.us, Dec 14»
Why are writers bedevilled by procrastination?
If procrastination were merely an example of what the Greeks termed akrasia – the habit of acting against one's better judgment – it would be of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»
Green Lantern: Having Fun As A Jets Fan These Days? I Didn't …
It's even akin to sneaking a peek at the MTV VMAs or, perhaps, SpongeBob Squarepants, against one's better judgment. Supporting the Jets ... «CBS Local, Aug 13»
Hear Maribou State's Rejuvenating Remix of George Maple's 'Fixed'
No matter how sumptuous the production, it's a bleak song, a downward spiral of desire against one's better judgment that's rendered as a ... «SPIN, Mar 13»
Tim Ferriss reddit AMA - on combatting procrastination
0:17 *Akrasia* is the state of acting against one's better judgment. An akratic person goes against reason as a result of some pathos (“emotion,” ... «YouTube, Mar 12»
Not all procrastinating is created equal. Which do you do?
... earlier in the article, a word taken from the works of early Greek philosophers that refers to doing something against one's better judgment. «Christian Science Monitor, Nov 10»
