The Relationship between Weakness of Will and Ethical Life in Aristotle: A Glance at Socrates’ View and Aristotle’ s Critique of Weakness of Will

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Kheirabadi Simin; Abdol Abadi AliAkbar

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Journal: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Year:2019 | Volume:10 | Issue:2 Page(s): 143-166

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The Relationship between Weakness of Will and Ethical Life in Aristotle: A Glance at Socrates’ View and Aristotle’ s Critique of Weakness of Will

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Kheirabadi Simin | Abdol Abadi AliAkbar | Issue Writer Certificate

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AristotleQ2

SocratesQ2

weakness of willQ2

ethical lifeQ1

ethical knowledgeQ2

ethical actQ1

Abstract

“ weakness of will” is one of the fundamental concepts in Aristotle’ s ethics, a thorough understanding of which requires an understanding of its meaning and use in his views. In this paper, following a descriptive-analytic method, the authors initially refer to the lexical roots of the expression of “ weakness of will” in Greek and, then, try to explain Socrates’ idea of weakness of will and Aristotle’ s critique of this view. Next, given some of the referents of the concept of weakness of will in Aristotle’ s Nichomachean Ethics, they seek to demonstrate why human beings sometimes act against their ethical knowledge. Later they provide Aristotle’ s analysis of the phenomenon of weakness of will as one of the obstacles to living an ethical life and argue that sometimes it stands in contrast to rationality. As a result, while being aware that something is ethically wrong or right, an individual, under the influence of their misplaced desires, might act unethically or cease to act ethically. In Aristotle’ s view, a necessary condition for the rationality of ethical necessity is for human beings to benefit from “ practical wisdom” . He also believes that if the intellect leads the other human faculties at the level of act, individuals will certainly choose and do the right thing.

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Kheirabadi, Simin, & Abdol Abadi, AliAkbar. (2019). The Relationship between Weakness of Will and Ethical Life in Aristotle: A Glance at Socrates’ View and Aristotle’ s Critique of Weakness of Will. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, 10(2 ), 143-166. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/379575/en

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Kheirabadi Simin, Abdol Abadi AliAkbar. The Relationship between Weakness of Will and Ethical Life in Aristotle: A Glance at Socrates’ View and Aristotle’ s Critique of Weakness of Will. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY[Internet]. 2019;10(2 ):143-166. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/379575/en

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Simin Kheirabadi, and AliAkbar Abdol Abadi, “The Relationship between Weakness of Will and Ethical Life in Aristotle: A Glance at Socrates’ View and Aristotle’ s Critique of Weakness of Will,” HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, vol. 10, no. 2 , pp. 143–166, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/379575/en

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