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    Aristotle's akratic agent pursues pleasure against their ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Most people are effectively Epicureans in practice, regardless of self-identification

    Aristotle's akratic agent pursues pleasure against their own rational judgment, which is precisely the condition Epicurus sought to cure, not endorse.

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    • 1.Aristotle's akratic agent acts against reasoned judgment; Epicurus advocated rational pleasure-selection, making them fundamentally opposed.
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    • 2.Epicurus explicitly warned against pursuing excessive bodily pleasures, positioning himself as a curative against irrational desire-pursuit.
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    • 3.The akratic condition involves weakness of will; Epicureanism aims at self-mastery through rational calculation, directly addressing this problem.
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    • 1.Epicurus's 'rational pleasure-selection' still prioritizes pleasure as the ultimate good, sharing the akratic agent's basic motivational structure.
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    • 2.Both positions allow pleasure-pursuit to override other values; disagreeing on which pleasures to pursue doesn't cure akrasia itself.
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    • 3.Epicurus endorsed pursuing pleasures of philosophy and friendship over bodily ones—a preference, not a cure for pursuing against rational judgment.
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