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'On Minerals', 'reports of career' and 'Introduction to 'Absolute Generality''
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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will
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The common belief is that people can know the best without acting on it [Socrates]
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No one willingly commits an evil or base act [Socrates]
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Socrates did not accept the tripartite soul (which permits akrasia) [Vlastos on Socrates]
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People do what they think they should do, and only ever do what they think they should do [Socrates, by Xenophon]
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Socrates was shocked by the idea of akrasia, but observation shows that it happens [Aristotle on Socrates]
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