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acratic, a. and n. Philos.|əˈkrætɪk|
Also akratic.
[As if formed on Gr. *ἀκρᾰτικ(ός, f. ἀκρᾰτ(ής powerless + -ic: see *acrasia n.2]
A. adj. Exhibiting weakness of will or ‘incontinence’.
B. n. An acratic person.
1969G. Vlastos in Phoenix XXIII. 75 Gallop.. clings to the notion that the people to whom the question is being put are somehow merged with the acratic man whose soul is ‘the seat of conflict’ between good and evil. 1969R. Robinson Ess. in Greek Philos. vii. 142 The second solution as well as the first consists in showing that the acratic both knows and does not know that his act is wrong. 1975Canad. Philos. Jrnl. Oct. V. 232 Though acratic action may be involuntary and indeed may entail the loss of one's normal self, it does not entail the loss of moral or legal liability to penalty. 1980A. O. Rorty in Social Sci. Information XIX. 908 If philosophers who deny acrasia are self-deceptive and akratic, so are those who deny the integrative functions of the varieties of rational strategies. 1985Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Dec. 1485/2 The akratic's failure consists in forming such an all-out evaluative thought despite his considering that, relative to all his evidence, something else is best. 1993Jrnl. Med. Ethics XIX. 206/2 Declaring an akratic agent autonomous classifies him together with an ordinary non-akratic agent; declaring him non-autonomous involves putting him in with non-rational beings such as animals, comatose patients and those in advanced stages of Alzheimer's Disease. Neither classification is comfortable.
Hence aˈcratically adv.
1975Canad. Philos. Jrnl. Oct. V. 224 When you act acratically, it is not your normal self that acts. 1986A. E. Mele in Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. XLVI. 678 If John had correctly gauged ‘the amount of effort required,’ he would not have acted akratically. |