Some Emotions Play a Reasonable Role in Akratic Actions, Not a Rational Role

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10.2991/assehr.k.210902.003How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Akratic actions, Emotions, Rationality, Reasonableness

Abstract

According to Donald Davidson, an akratic action is opposed to the agent’s better judgment if the agent act freely and intentionally. Davidson says akratic actions are possible and all akratic actions are irrational. However, although akratic actions are possible, akratic actions could be rational. The reasons are that some of these actions are rational; these rational akratic actions are caused by some emotions sometimes, while some emotions cannot make akratic actions rational, including excessive negative emotions, recalcitrant emotions, etc. Therefore, it is reasonable to explain akratic actions caused by these emotions and these emotions not play a rational role in akratic actions.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yu Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/04
TI  - Some Emotions Play a Reasonable Role in Akratic Actions, Not a Rational Role
BT  - Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. (Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research) (ICCESSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 14
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210902.003
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