Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics bk. 7 | Akrasia or Lack of Self-Control | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on book 7 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, where Aristotle discusses lack of self control, called in Greek "akrasia". He discusses how this lack of self-control can take place, and whether it involves knowing something to be bad or wrong and nevertheless choosing it.
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Комментарии : 43

@kizzMyBuzz 11 лет назад

gee professor i really like your long lectures, they really get into the beef! i can be playing the drums but at the same time your lecture will be going through my thoughts, something about all limbs moving and my mind relaxing enough for the point to hit home. thank you!

@blondthought5175 9 лет назад

This should be required teaching in public schools.

@GregoryBSadler 9 лет назад

That would indeed be something!

@tylerparks7202 10 лет назад

Excellent video. Thank you. Well done and easy to understand.

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

You're welcome -- glad you find it useful

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Glad you find them useful

@edamameedamame1202 4 года назад

Thank you. Learning from Taiwan

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

You don't have more self-control when younger, not in the sense being discussed here. Younger people are notoriously driven by desire and pleasure, against reason's dictates, according to Aristotle

@flamephlegm 11 лет назад

Thanks for the core concepts series, it's nice for when you don't have a lot of time, or are merely impatient. :-)

@thelaziestguy6645 7 лет назад

Very well explained! thank you.

@GregoryBSadler 7 лет назад

You're welcome!

@MrAngryman69 11 лет назад

Awesome!!!

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Hahaha! That is definitely the first time that anyone has suggested it might be good to connect up my philosophy lectures with something kinetic!

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

You're very welcome

@MrSoilsguy 8 лет назад

wow.. You rock..thanks for explaining

@GregoryBSadler 8 лет назад

+MrSoilsguy You're welcome!

@hopefullook 4 года назад

great lecture

@GregoryBSadler 4 года назад

Thanks!

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Well, that would mean having a desire (which is affective) for intellectual goods, for enjoyment of them. It wouldn't mean intellect is itself a desire. There is an interconnection between desire and intellect for Aristotle -- but they do remain distinguishable from each other

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

If we're being very strict interpreters of Aristotle, intellect itself -- considered as a faculty -- wouldn't be desirable as such. It would be its activities (learning, reflecting, putting things together), its habitus/hexis (since knowledge, etc. is that for Aristotle), and its objects (e.g. learning about X, where X is something you want/desire to know)

@MrAngryman69 11 лет назад

So basically intellect can be desirable as long as it falls under some desire (wants, cravings, etc.) and itself is not a desire?

@choppadowneyjr 6 лет назад

your a great teacher... wish I had you for ethics lol

@GregoryBSadler 6 лет назад

Well, I do offer online classes and tutorials. . . .

@London_miss234 7 лет назад

Because of this video, I bought and read "Irrationality An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Self-Control" by Alfred R. Mele. I now realize that I married because of the desire to marry more than looking into the qualities of the man (we divorced years ago), against my better judgment. I wish I would have seen your video or read more on this when I was young.

@GregoryBSadler 7 лет назад

Well, I can say that I married my first time for some similarly misguided reasons. I don't know that for me, having had any good advice would have helped at the time. So, I can certainly commiserate!

@London_miss234 7 лет назад

Gregory B. Sadler Exactly. My friends and family tried talking me out of marriage. But I was stubborn, and in love. With age comes wisdom, for most, anyway.

@GregoryBSadler 7 лет назад

englishgal234 Yep. Some of my friends and family tried. Others knew how stubborn I was, and didn't even bother!

@sebastianviruzab7986 8 лет назад

Very nice video on a very important topic in my opinion. I am curious how would a perfectionist fit into all this? Say that he really is super strict with himself, like really strict ( leaving all sorts of mental disorders aside, no Rain Man stuff), despite being in control with everything, isn't he lacking control when it comes to desiring perfection? ( I find this rather paradoxical)

@GregoryBSadler 8 лет назад

+seba viruzab What seems paradoxical to it, I suppose, is that "self-control" is being used in multiple senses. The "self-control" of a perfectionist isn't really self-control in the full sense

@sebastianviruzab7986 8 лет назад

+Gregory B. Sadler Indeed.

@sebastianviruzab7986 8 лет назад

+Gregory B. Sadler How do you think Aristotle would classify the perfectionist or what sort of vice would he posses ( I guess he has a vice because he seems to be taking an extreme position regarding the virtue of moderation ) ?

@MrAngryman69 11 лет назад

Couldn't intellect be a desire since people do like to be smart? I mean a person would do anything to achieve it or gain intellect so would that in turn make intellect into a desire since people want it? I know its a weird question but knowing things and doing things with reason to me is a sort of desire and pleasure.

@JoseAndre10S 5 лет назад

when Aristotle excludes children from his lectures, how is that related to akrasia?

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

No idea what you're asking.

@JoseAndre10S 5 лет назад

It’s okay I figured it out. Thank God it wasn’t on the test

@followyourideas 7 лет назад

What about Epictetus Akrasia? Ive heard he has a different view on it.

@GregoryBSadler 7 лет назад

He doesn't use that term, as far as I know. But he does discuss how it is that we end up going against what we on some level know to be right - generally because we think that the wrong thing is right. . .

@followyourideas 7 лет назад

Gregory B. Sadler I think he uses it in the discourses but anyways... So according to Epictetus it's just poor judgment? I mean I know that water is better than coke but sometimes I drink coke even though I'm a hundred percent aware of the poor choice that I'm making. A minute later I regret it. :(

@GregoryBSadler 7 лет назад

Followyourideas (Aikido Shodokan) So you read Epictetus in Greek? Can't recall ever coming across "akasia" or "akrates" in the text, so if you know the passage, I'd be interested to get the reference. A search using Perseus turned up nothing. Here's my Stoic playlist - you can poke around in there, if you like: ru-vid.com/group/PL4gvlOxpKKIjJCphkLAhl-enapF9Tp1C6 Or, if you'd like to book some time to go over the matter in a 1-on-1 session, here's my site: reasonio.wordpress.com/tutorials/

@followyourideas 7 лет назад

Gregory B. Sadler drive.google.com/file/d/0B5xU7bb2z48Zc1lSQlZOMUFrRU0/view?usp=drivesdk Unfortunately only the introduction is in English. I'm aware of your videos in stoicism I really like them... I'm doing the enchiridion mini course at the moment. Great material.