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Backsliding - Understanding Weakness of Will (Hardcover)
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Backsliding - Understanding Weakness of Will (Hardcover)
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People backslide. They freely do things they believe it would be
best on the whole not to do - and best from their own point of
view, not just the perspective of their peers or their parents. The
aim of this book is to explain why that happens. The first main
item of business is to clarify the nature of backsliding - of
actions that display some weakness of will. To this end, Mele uses
traditional philosophical techniques dating back to Plato and
Aristotle (whose work on weakness of will or "akrasia" he
discusses) and some new studies in the emerging field of
experimental philosophy. He then attacks the thesis that
backsliding is an illusion because people never freely act contrary
to what they judge best. Mele argues that it is extremely plausible
that if people ever act freely, they sometimes backslide. The
biggest challenge posed by backsliding is to explain why it
happens. At the book's heart is the development of a theoretical
and empirical framework that sheds light both on backsliding and on
exercises of self-control that prevent it. Here, Mele draws on work
in social and developmental psychology and in psychiatry to
motivate a view of human behavior in which both backsliding and
overcoming the temptation to backslide are explicable. He argues
that backsliding is no illusion and our theories about the springs
of action, the power of evaluative judgments, human agency, human
rationality, practical reasoning, and motivation should accommodate
backsliding.
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