Jessica Tizzard

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

I think it's much more important to think about my capacity for judgment and my understanding and what might have been lacking there such that in being confronted with this strong desire, I ended up doing the bad thing.

I ended up acting against my established principles in a way that I came to regret, and that causes me some pain.

So I guess one way of thinking of it is if we're trying to avoid weakness, the thing to do isn't to try to avoid having strong desires.

That's just never going to happen, right?

That's just the kinds of creatures that we are, that this is always going to be something that we're at risk for having.

The thing to work on is my capacity for judgment and understanding.

So I would deny that the two things can be totally disconnected.

They definitely influence one another.

Yeah, so there's a sense in which we've been talking about it all along.

So I would say that the most important thing in explaining weakness for me, and I think for Kant, is thinking about where imperfect duties collide and thinking about the sort of dilemma we've been talking about and cultivating the sense of judgment that will allow us to best navigate that.

the application of these principles.

And so this is very different from the other two views because if you think about what I call the rationalist view, they're not thinking about the application of principles, they're just thinking about the principles themselves.

So do I have good ones or bad ones, right?

Am I actually committed to being temperate?

Am I actually committed to caring about other people and helping them when they're in need?

Or am I self-deceived about that and I'm not?

My view is saying, no, as a weak person, I still have a good will.

I am still committed to these things.

I just fail to bear them out sometimes, and that's because I have an imperfect understanding or a sort of uncultivated judgment about how best to apply these principles to particular situations.

So that's how I think we need to respond to the rationalist view.

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