From 632e7438cb190a70e1abb7ddc6b07a7843952005 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zleyyij <75810274+zleyyij@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 11:57:15 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2024-10-08 11:57:15 --- education/english/ENGL2010/Addiction Analysis.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/education/english/ENGL2010/Addiction Analysis.md b/education/english/ENGL2010/Addiction Analysis.md index 674e8a1..af682b5 100644 --- a/education/english/ENGL2010/Addiction Analysis.md +++ b/education/english/ENGL2010/Addiction Analysis.md @@ -19,5 +19,10 @@ - "At one point their discussion turns to the topic of what the Greeks called akrasia: acting against one’s best judgment." - "Akrasia is a fancy name for an all-too-common experience. I know I should go to the gym, but I watch Netflix instead. You know you’ll enjoy dinner more if you stop eating the bottomless chips, but you keep munching nevertheless." - This makes the article more relatable + - Socrates felt that this didn't make sense, arguing that actions always reveal true beliefs + - "Socrates clearly never went to a restaurant with unlimited chips. But he has a point. To figure out what a person’s true priorities are, we usually look to the choices they make. (“Actions speak louder than words.”) When a person binges on TV, munches chips, or gets high despite the consequences, Socrates would infer that they must care more about indulging now than about avoiding those consequences — whatever they may _say_ to the contrary" + - He argues that people simply have bad judgement, and that they aren't acting against their better judgement. - 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.” \ No newline at end of file + - "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