PHIL 271 Lecture : March 6 Lecture.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 271
• Professor: Kerah Gordon- Solomon

Document Summary

Davidson rejects both of the alternative approaches to the weakness of the will. 34 when a person acts with an intention, the following . When a person acts they will take what they believe is the most appropriate course of action to get to the end. You have a desire, the belief, and the action. The desire and the belief cause the action. Sometimes a person will have conflicting desires, desires that can"t both be satisfied because they require competing courses of action. Cases in which a person"s desires cannot both be satisfied, davidson says that a person will form a all things considered form of judgement. They will decide what they really want to achieve. Acting in contently is irrational in one sense, it involves acting contrary to ones all things considered judgement, it acts contrary to what a person strongly wants to do.