That’s a bit like saying that you should describe the colour of fire engines as ‘blue’ because some people won’t understand ‘crimson’. Surely ‘weak-willed’ is better than ‘hypocrisy’.
Interesting as I thought this was the most powerful point of the post:
At the very least, it is a controversial step in moral reasoning to decide that people’s emotional impulses and subconscious pressures, rather than their declarative moral reasoning processes and the words that issue from their lips, constitute their “real selves”. We should then call akrasia, not weakness of will, but strength of will.
And because not very many people know what “akrasia” means.
You can get at a similar meaning by using words like “laziness” or “lack of self-control”.
That’s a bit like saying that you should describe the colour of fire engines as ‘blue’ because some people won’t understand ‘crimson’. Surely ‘weak-willed’ is better than ‘hypocrisy’.
Interesting as I thought this was the most powerful point of the post: