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Weak or uneducated people, children, and animals cannot b... — Carmelics

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Weak or uneducated people, children, and animals cannot be expected to mark their inner conditions

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1.Inner perception requires a capacity to notice and resist incipient impulses
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2.Weak or uneducated people, children, and animals lack the developed capacity for self-control that inner perception requires
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1.Piaget and subsequent developmental psychologists demonstrate that children possess progressive metacognitive capacities from early childhood, not a binary absence.
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2.The supporting argument conflates the threshold for full self-control with the threshold for any inner perception, making it an invalid inference.
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1.Aristotle's account of akrasia presupposes that weakness of will coexists with genuine awareness of one's own states, not blindness to them.
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2.If weak-willed agents can perceive their inner conditions while failing to resist them, then lack of self-control is not evidence of lacking inner perception.
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Apperception is closely connected to morality, as we will see in more detail in the section on Herbart’s ethics. It is interesting to note, however, that even in his discussion of inner perception (or as we might call it, “self-awareness”), his examples all have a normative dimension. Thus, as in the case of an unattended external humming noise, which we suddenly realize has been going on in the margin of consciousness, so too we most easily recognize inner perception when it lapses, e.g., when

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