<story><title>Ancient Greek terms worth reviving</title><url>https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/12-ancient-greek-terms-that-should</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adverbly</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always liked &amp;quot;akrasia&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Akrasia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Akrasia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Weakness of will to act against one&amp;#x27;s own better judgement.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s everywhere in modern society, and I&amp;#x27;d love to see it called out more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>I think you misquoted. The actual meaning is weakness of will to act according to one&amp;#x27;s better judgement.&lt;p&gt;From the wiki article &amp;quot;&amp;quot;lacking command&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;weakness&amp;quot;, occasionally transliterated as acrasia or Anglicised as acrasy or acracy) is a lack of self-control, or acting against one&amp;#x27;s better judgment.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ancient Greek terms worth reviving</title><url>https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/12-ancient-greek-terms-that-should</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adverbly</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always liked &amp;quot;akrasia&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Akrasia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Akrasia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Weakness of will to act against one&amp;#x27;s own better judgement.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s everywhere in modern society, and I&amp;#x27;d love to see it called out more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setgree</author><text>Jon Elster’s ‘Ulysses and the Sirens’ is about akrasia, more or less; in situations where we know we are likely to act against our own best interests, how do we credibly commit ourselves to doing the right thing, like Ulysses binding himself to the mast? One of the best social science texts I ever read</text></comment>