Teaching Socrates, Aristotle, and Augustine on Akrasia
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Teaching Socrates, Aristotle, and Augustine on Akrasia
A long-standing debate among moral philosophers centers on the question of whether ignorance is always at the root of moral wrongdoing, or whether, in certain cases, wrongdoing stems from something else—namely akrasia. This paper is a discussion of how undergraduate core curriculum teachers can incorporate Augustine’s work into this debate. I begin by briefly reconstructing Socrates’ and Aristo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Religions
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2077-1444
DOI: 10.3390/rel6020419