Question
Sophie Horowitz considered second-order evidence obtained by Sam the Sleepy Detective in a 2014 paper arguing that this state’s “epistemic” form is usually impossible. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this Greek word usually translated as “weakness of will” or “incontinence.” In the Protagoras, Socrates argues that this state is impossible because “nobody goes after evil” by doing something they believe to be wrong.
ANSWER: akrasia [accept “Epistemic Akrasia”]
[10e] This work’s seventh book argues that akrasia is possible since it arises from opinion, rather than desire. This work claims that people who develop a virtuous character will achieve eudaimonia.
ANSWER: Nicomachean Ethics [or Ēthika Nikomacheia]
[10h] Aristotle used this word to refer to the opposite of akrasia and unified both into the virtue of temperance, or sophrosyne. While Aristotle thought this concept was not a virtue, Xenophon called it “the foundation of all virtues.”
ANSWER: enkrateia
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