diff --git a/education/english/ENGL2010/Addiction Analysis.md b/education/english/ENGL2010/Addiction Analysis.md index 9d76df9..2abf801 100644 --- a/education/english/ENGL2010/Addiction Analysis.md +++ b/education/english/ENGL2010/Addiction Analysis.md @@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ - He argues that people simply have bad judgement, and that they aren't acting against their better judgement. - He also argues that bad decisions indicate bad priorities. - The idea that people need to hit "rock bottom" before they can hit true recovery reinforces that idea. It means that a person needs to truly understand the consequences of their "selfishness". - - + - Socratic rationale for punishing drug possession with jail is another example of this idea. - Addiction intensifies the disconnect between judgement and action - "Here’s the testimony of one person with addiction, reported in Maia Szalavitz’s book [_Unbroken Brain_](https://books.google.com/books?id=4yJ3CgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false): “I can remember many, many times driving down to the projects telling myself, ‘You don’t want to do this! You don’t want to do this!’ But I’d do it anyway.” - Ethos - - \ No newline at end of file +- The "self" is not a single unitary thing + - The concept of a "dual process" mind comes from Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, who divides the mind into a part that makes judgements quickly, intuitively, and unconsciously ("System 1") and a part that thinks more slowly, rationally, and consiously ("System 2"). \ No newline at end of file