Akrasia Quotes

You decide your own level of involvement.

Surely the Greeks had a word for it, choosing to act in one’s own very worst interests? Yes, they did. It was akrasia.

In your world the weak sell their souls a bit at a time" - Ketastrina

Personal change requires motivation, a plan, and determination to see a plan through to fruition. Although I elected to change the way that I live, this decision was not easy to implement. We frequently act against our better judgment. We sometimes know the correct thing to do, but still struggle doing so. The Ancient Greeks used the term akrasia to refer to a person knowing what course of action is correct and righteous, but electing do somethings else because of a lack of self-control.

According to Aristotle, we often fail despite being able to recognize what we ought to do. We fail practically, through procrastination; we experience akrasia or a failure of self-control; we act impetuously, or are weak. 32 We give in to lesser impulses and do not engage in the moral behaviors we think we should.

All of us have had the experience of knowing or feeling that we should do something or that an action would be in our best interest … but we don’t do it. The term for that experience is Akrasia (pronounced “ah-KRAH-see-ah”).

We often suffer from akrasia, weakness of will. So we become good people the way we become good tennis players or violinists, through practice until the behaviour we aspire to becomes natural and instinctive. Being moral means acquiring the habits of the heart we call virtue.

The opposite of akrasia is enkrateia, which is to “be in power