Against better judgment : akrasia in anthropological perspectives /

"Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' - that is, the possibility that people might act against thei...

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Інші автори: McKearney, Patrick (Редактор), Evans, Nicholas H. A. (Редактор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: New York : Berghahn Books, 2023.
Серія:Wyse series in social anthropology ; v. 14.
Онлайн доступ:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5501135
Зміст:
  • Against Better Judgment
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Trigger Warnings
  • Chapter 2. Three Problems with the Addiction as Akrasia Thesis That Ethnography Can Solve
  • Chapter 3. To Live Like 'People'
  • Chapter 4. Prayer, Demons and Akratic Sublation
  • Chapter 5. Troubleshooting Humans
  • Chapter 6. The 'Replication' of Caste as a Form of Collective Akrasia
  • Chapter 7. Is Grit Irrational for Akratic Agents?
  • Chapter 8. Relational Akrasia
  • Afterword
  • Index