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#56: You're not weak-willed, according to Socrates

The Academic Imperfectionist

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Making Weakness of Will Makes NoSense

In order to find out what a person's values are, it's better to look at how that person behaves rather than what they say about what their values are. When it came to considering weakness of will, Hare reasoned in the opposite direction to the way most of us naturally do. He'd start by looking at our actions and ask, what does this behaviour reveal about this person's values? And he'd conclude that since you hit the snooze button when the alarm went off, you can't really value getting up when the alarm goes off - regardless of what you might claim. Most of us would explain our hitting thesnooze button as follows: All things considered, I believe

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