Jessica Tizzard

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Elucidations · Episode 130: Jessica Tizzard discusses weakness of the will · 22 Nov 2020 podcast

Thank you for having me.

Right, yeah.

I think that is a good way to think about it.

I should say up front that as a philosopher, my work is mainly on the philosopher Immanuel Kant.

So when I'm thinking about weakness of will in my job as a philosopher, I'm thinking about how to properly interpret Kant's understanding of what weakness of will is.

And when he introduces the phenomenon in

He quotes St.

Paul in Romans as saying, what I would do that I do not do.

So that is, you know, the basic idea.

I want to do something.

I think there's a principled reason to do that.

I view that thing as the right thing to do.

And yet I do not do it.

Right.

So and I think, yeah, as you said, that seems to capture our everyday sense of weakness of will when we talk about it.

Yeah, I think it makes sense to think of it as yet another case of weakness of the will.

And I like that you use the term afterwards, right?

I was ashamed afterwards.

I think on Kant's view, and I think this should be our general view, it's a much broader phenomenon than the really puzzling type of case where even in the moment I know that I'm doing something wrong and acting as I do.

So I think we can apply the term weakness to any case where I act against my established moral commitments or principles and then come to regret my action once I have reflective clarity on the fact that I did act against those principles.

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