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    A man who goes against his own best judgment acts and jud... — Carmelics
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    A man who goes against his own best judgment acts and judges irrationally.

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    • 1.Such a man violates the principle of continence.
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    • 2.The principle of continence is a substantive principle of rationality whose obedience is necessary for rationality.
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    • 1.Aristotle distinguishes akrasia from vice: the akratic agent retains correct moral judgment, making their failure one of weakness, not irrationality.
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    • 2.Irrationality implies a defect in evaluative judgment itself, but the akratic agent's judgment remains intact—only their motivational control fails.
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    • 3.A failure of self-governance is a moral-psychological defect distinct from the epistemic or logical defects that constitute irrationality proper.
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    • 1.Davidson argues that akratic action involves a partition of the mind where a locally valid practical inference overrides an all-things-considered judgment.
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    • 2.If the agent acts on a genuine, internally coherent sub-system of reasons, their action satisfies local standards of rationality even while violating global ones.
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    • 3.Rationality admits of degrees and domains, so violating a global principle does not entail that the agent's action or judgment is irrational simpliciter.
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    What should we say about an agent who does this? Returning to the three features of prima facie or PF judgments which we noted earlier, features (a) and (b) hold even of the special subclass of PF judgments which are ATC judgments. Such judgments neither are equivalent to, nor logically imply, any AO judgment. So the incontinent agent who fails to draw the AO conclusion which corresponds to his ATC conclusion, and to perform the corresponding action, is not committing “a simple logical blu
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