Jessica Tizzard
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286 appearances
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first heard Nov 2020
last heard Nov 2020
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And, yeah, I don't think that they are helpful ways to think about what goes on when we act weakly.
I think...
As a Kant scholar, that's absolutely not Kant's view.
But even just as a human being trying to make sense of weakness, right, because we're all weak, I think, I don't know how many just everyday people would want to give that kind of explanation of weakness.
I think it's something that philosophers end up saying because other things that they want to accept philosophically sort of constrain them.
They back them into a corner and they have to say something like that.
But I want to deny that we have to end up in that corner.
We can still have a really robust conception of reason and the way that our capacity to form principles and act according to them and exhibit good practical judgment influences our lives and directs our lives as rational beings without going into that corner.
case.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
And then it can be impossible to explain why.
Well, not impossible, but we end up having to give a strange, convoluted explanation of why do I feel pain about it then?
Yeah, in what sense am I regretting something or what's going on there?
Yeah, and I think that's a hard hole to dig yourself out of.
Yeah, and then in the second case...
where I admit I am just overcome by strong desire, I don't want to say that we should deny that strong desires can surprise us and influence us and sort of exert their pressure on us and influence our behavior as human beings.
I think it would be philosophically strange to deny that.
But in trying to explain how weakness of will is possible or what it looks like in general,
I think that we end our work too early in just focusing on the desire and saying, there, that's what overwhelmed me.
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