Affiliation:
1. Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade
2. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
Abstract
The text examines the phenomenon of irrational behavior in the context of the
problem of weakness of will. The first part of the paper is dedicated to the
analysis of a person, that is, the mechanisms which a person accesses in
adoption and analysis of the information available to him, as well as their
application in practice. After determining cognitive, narrative and
identification process in the structure of consciousness, we approach the
analysis and criticism of rationalistic, Socratic thesis about weakness of
will. We argue that it is impossible to determine the problem of weakness of
will axiomatically, whereby we introduce a correlative phrase - relativity
of weakness, triggering an identification process characteristic of every
person individually. The identification process, we further argue, is an
unavoidable initial step when explaining akrastic behavior.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
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