Answer:
weakness of will; acting in a way contrary to one's sincerely held moral values.
Step-by-step explanation:
- Akrasia is a lack of self-control or acting against one's better judgment. It is sometimes translated into English as incontinence
- Akrasia (/əˈkreɪziə/; Greek ἀκρασία, "lacking command" or "weakness", occasionally transliterated as acrasia or Anglicised as acrasy or acracy) is a lack of self-control or acting against one's better judgment.
- You experience Akrasia when you are thinking about changing a Habit you no longer want (“I should quit drinking,”) or taking a new set of actions (“I should start processing my emails daily.”) So the “should” feeling is still there, but it doesn't lead to actions.
- In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives an account of akrasia (lack of self control) as well as an interesting classification of the different forms it can assume: he distinguishes between weak and impetuous akrasia, and between akrasia caused by thumos and akrasia caused by bodily desires.